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On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 4:03:35 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> Michael Pendragon wrote: 
> 
> > On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 3:22:00 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> >> On Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 1:26:39 PM UTC-4, George Dance wrote: 
> >> > 
> >> > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog: 
> >> > Garden Wireless, by Carl Sandburg 
> >> > [...] 
> >> > this lone red tulip, a woman's mouth of passionate kisses, a nun's mouth 
> >> > of sweet thinking, here topping a straight line of green 
> >> > [...] 
> >> > https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/06/garden-wireless-carl-sandburg.html 
> >> Yes, I read the poem a couple of months ago and was going on my memory of the reading. 
> >> 
> >> You obviously just read it for the first time, so, congratulations, Pendragon. 
> 
> > Why would that be obvious
> Because Carl Sandburg seems out of your narrow scope of poetry appreciation. 

ROTFLMAO.

Apparently you didn't bother reading (or, more likely, failed to understand) my notes on the poem (above).

Since you're too lazy to scroll up, I'll repost it here:

The title, "Garden Wireless," sums up the poem's message as succinctly as possible: nature is sending us messages.

What messages? That it's late Spring/early Summer, the world is warm and bursting with burgeoning life, and we should seize the day: enjoy the delightful season while it lasts. Run, play, live, laugh, love are the specific and implied pleasures to be had... especially the last in its most passionate incarnation.

It's a wonderful, Epicurean message, but also an exceedingly common one in poetry. What's uncommon about it is is mixture of Paganism and modernity (both in the title and the final stanza), implying that June's fertility rites remain a part of our present day world.

Stylistically, it's less of a poem proper, than a short, beautifully written monologue bursting with poetic sentiment. 

Michael Pendragon
PJR: Do you ever read the posts to which you reply?
WILL DOCKERY: Okay, good point.