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O crows circling over my head and cawing!
I admit to being, at times,
Suddenly, and without the slightest warning,
Exceedingly happy.
On a morning otherwise sunless,
Strolling arm in arm
Past some gallows-shaped trees
With my dear Helen,
Who is also a strange bird,
With a feeling of being summoned
Urgently, but by a most gracious invitation
To breakfast on slices of watermelon
In the company of naked gods and goddesses
On a patch of last night's snow.
Charles Simic
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Read poems about / on: warning, snow, happy, night, tree
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Comments about this poem (Heights Of Folly
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Charles Simic
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Adnana Karahasanovic Zeljkovic (5/26/2010 5:04:00 AM)
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Well expressed appreciation of happiness. Almost apologetic. As if afraid of being 'exceedingly happy'. And the surrealistic image of breakfast with gods and goddesses - little lower than the angels... Do we deserve it? Well rounded up poem.
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Roy Joe Stuckey (9/27/2009 5:06:00 PM)
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Through antique panes of glass on three sides,
I see verdant foilage, gently coloring;
and, I feel myself fully surrounded,
Suddenly, I am very happy.
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Roy Joe Stuckey (9/14/2009 3:59:00 AM)
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In eighteen and sixty two,
Sarah and Isaac asked the President to free the slaves.
In nineteen and fifty eight;
Ruthie and Roy Joe asked the President to ban the bomb.
In twenty and nine, their Grandson Brian,
Made a statue, reminiscent of these procreative deeds;
And the three, were very happy!
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Roy Joe Stuckey (9/13/2009 4:49:00 PM)
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I saw a hawk rise in the sky
; and suddenly. I was very happy!
I believe God spoke to me;
and gave me a feeling of well bveing.
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Adam Milgram (9/26/2007 9:29:00 PM)
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Not sure I comprehend the last paragraph....help
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