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Cioran

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The Trees
« on: March 16, 2009, 10:36:57 pm »
The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said;
The recent buds relax and spread,
Their greenness is a kind of grief.

Is it that they are born again
And we grow old? No, they die too.
Their yearly trick of looking new
Is written down in rings of grain.

Yet still the unresting castles thresh
In fullgrown thickness every May.
Last year is dead, they seem to say,
Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2009, 11:36:24 pm »
What a wonderfully nostalgic poem.
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2009, 11:45:31 pm »
Nostalgia for what?
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2009, 01:02:30 am »
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2009, 01:22:05 am »
There is trouble in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.
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« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2009, 03:14:27 am »
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2009, 04:27:12 am »
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For The Deer Hunter.

Woolly Adelgid reference FTW.

...except, fuck woolly adelgids. they suck.
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2009, 03:59:54 pm »
Quote from: carlosdelvaca on March 17, 2009, 01:22:05 am
There is trouble in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

You gotta love a band that can cross-brand a communist uprising with environmental awareness. 
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2009, 05:22:06 pm »
Oh come on, at least give us a bit of variety! If I were after this I could just open the collected poems at random. At least the typesetting would be better.
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2009, 03:30:17 am »
Is your sole purpose here to enlighten the board to the delights of Larkin's poetry?
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2009, 07:31:39 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on March 17, 2009, 03:59:54 pm
You gotta love a band that can cross-brand a communist uprising with environmental awareness. 

And Canadian anti-americanism.
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Re: The Trees
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2009, 05:59:50 pm »
Quote from: JudyIsADickSlap on March 18, 2009, 03:30:17 am
Is your sole purpose here to enlighten the board to the delights of Larkin's poetry?

No.
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