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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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Used with permission of the author.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Metropole-California-Poetry-Geoffrey-OBrien/dp/0520268873?tag=poetsorg-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0060908890&adid=0E61CKRVKJN60Z7VDC51&?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_book" target="_blank">More from this author</a></p> <hr noshade size=1> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_winter_alsoonPoets.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""><br> <br> <b>Other O'Brien Poems</b><br> <li><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19617?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_related" target=_blank>Mixed Mode</a></li> <li><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16834?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_related" target=_blank>Three Seasons</a></li> <li><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22217?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_related" target=_blank>Vague Cadence</a></li> </p> <hr noshade size=1> <p>You can <a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/549?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unsub">unsubscribe</a> from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime&mdash;either completely, or until next April.</p> <p><img src="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_academylogo_winter.gif" border="0" alt=""></p> <p>Academy of American Poets<br> 75 Maiden Lane<br> Suite 901<br> New York, NY 10038<br> 212-274-0343<br> <a href="mailto:academy@poets.org">academy@poets.org</a></p> </TD> <TD><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> </TR> </TABLE><BR> </TD> <TD WIDTH="1" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD VALIGN="top"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD><BR> <p><span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;color:#CF6500;">From Honey to Ashes</span><br> by Geoffrey G. O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. 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<p>February 3, 2012</p> <p>Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Geoffrey G. 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, 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O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" 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SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="C0DFF8"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD><BR> <p>February 3, 2012</p> <p>Today's poem is copyright © 2012 by Geoffrey G. 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Used with permission of the author.</p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Metropole-California-Poetry-Geoffrey-OBrien/dp/0520268873?tag=poetsorg-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0060908890&adid=0E61CKRVKJN60Z7VDC51&?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_book" target="_blank">More from this author</a></p> <hr noshade size=1> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_winter_alsoonPoets.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""><br> <br> <b>Other O'Brien Poems</b><br> <li><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19617?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_related" target=_blank>Mixed Mode</a></li> <li><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16834?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_related" target=_blank>Three Seasons</a></li> <li><a href="http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/22217?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=content&utm_term=poemaday_obrien_related" target=_blank>Vague Cadence</a></li> </p> <hr noshade size=1> <p>You can <a href="http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/549?utm_source=poemaday_020312&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=unsub">unsubscribe</a> from our Poem-A-Day emails at at anytime&mdash;either completely, or until next April.</p> <p><img src="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_academylogo_winter.gif" border="0" alt=""></p> <p>Academy of American Poets<br> 75 Maiden Lane<br> Suite 901<br> New York, NY 10038<br> 212-274-0343<br> <a href="mailto:academy@poets.org">academy@poets.org</a></p> </TD> <TD><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> </TR> </TABLE><BR> </TD> <TD WIDTH="1" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD VALIGN="top"> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR><TD><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD><BR> <p><span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;color:#CF6500;">From Honey to Ashes</span><br> by Geoffrey G. O'Brien <br><br> What follows is terms and classifications, the West <br> Of speech congratulating itself within<br> A system so complex there's no way not to be <br> Effective. Just as they had planned the streets<br> On either side are lined with all that's needed,<br> Storefronts whose glass returns a look <br> Filled with the contents it displays<br> (Mannequins, organics, mobile phones)<br> Making even moving sitting still, an embrace<br> Above anything that's so. Cuts and clouds<br> Drift south across the far part of the sky<br> From adventure to instruction, so where<br> There is only the mildest threat of showers<br> You see a shape and then a story, parody <br> Of the private life of the world.<br> And what was promised to the mind of the hearer <br> In transformation remains away, ideal <br> Portrait there is a certain pleasure in reading<br> As buffer against what today sends tomorrow.<br> It's like forgetting that part of childhood<br> In which one learned to do everything <br> From the pages of a book not unlike <br> A painting, but a painting with motion <br> In its idle depths, down where dusk meets <br> Foreclosure and the clouds charge out<br> Into the gift of seeing them forthrightly <br> Pass by a thing that might have happened, public<br> Pleasures that progress, the horizon, etc.<br> Always more or less just starting out<br> Its day, though it would be better to call it<br> A grouping sent down through suffering<br> To sunset, signed in the same place by night<br> To win over the jury in advance; it's a painting <br> Of the burning of a book whose content is<br> Colors, lights, flowers, fragments of bone <br> Taken from the wound, from greater and lesser <br> Distances, to tell the bad from the good,<br> Buy the evening's groceries in every sense. <br> What follows is seven dominated days <br> Of the week ready to bind with really anything<br> At all, your thoughts as you come forward<br> Out of the haze like sun through a curtain<br> Or go to sleep so as to be of further use&mdash;<br> You would like to choose between them<br> But aren't these one and the same task?<br> </p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <p><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/poemaday_spacer.gif" BORDER="0" ALT=""></p> <span class="sbinline" STYLE="font-weight: bold; color: #CC6600;">Share</span> <span class="sbinline"><img src="http://www.poets.org/images/digg.png" border="0"> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http://poets.org%2Fviewmedia.php%2FprmMID%2F22785&title=From+Honey+to+Ashes" target="_blank">Digg</a></span> <span class="sbinline"><img src="http://www.poets.org/images/su.png" border="0"> <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://poets.org%2Fviewmedia.php%2FprmMID%2F22785&title=From+Honey+to+Ashes" target="_blank">StumbleUpon </a></span> <span class="sbinline"><img src="http://www.poets.org/images/facebook.gif" border="0"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpoets.org%2Fviewmedia.php%2FprmMID%2F22785" target="_blank">Facebook </a></span> <span class="sbinline"><img src="http://www.poets.org/images/taf.gif" border="0"> <a href="http://www.poets.org/tellafriend.php/prmURL/%5Eviewmedia.php%5EprmMID%5E22785">E-mail to Friend</A></span> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="450" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="10" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> </TR> </TABLE><BR> </TD> <TD WIDTH="1" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR><TD WIDTH="1" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD VALIGN="top" BGCOLOR="C0DFF8"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD WIDTH="1" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> <TD STYLE="padding: 1pt;"> &nbsp;<BR> </TD> <TD WIDTH="1" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> </TR> <TR><TD COLSPAN="5" BGCOLOR="#"><IMG SRC="http://www.poets.org/images/spacer.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" ALT=""></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/poem-day-geoffrey-g-obrien-from-honey.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:21:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-poem-day-geoffrey-g-obrien.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:37:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-messages-poem-day-geoffrey-g.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:37:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-messages-messages-poem-day_03.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:38:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-messages-messages-messages_03.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:38:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-messages-messages-messages_5018.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:38:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-messages-messages-messages_1711.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:38:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.com/2012/02/messages-messages-messages-messages_4069.html">Messages</a> at 2/03/2012 07:38:00 AM <br><br>--<br> Posted By Messages to <a href="http://messagesheart.blogspot.c