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[ghazalah]

For Stephen, orphaned

Worldling

In a world of souls, I set out to find them.
They who first must find each other,
be each other's fate.
There, on the open road,
I gazed into each traveler's face.
Is it you? I would ask.
Are you the ones?
No, no, they said, or nothing at all

Comments

[ghazalah]

Oh, yes. That's what closed the deal for me. :-)

What did he see in all he observed?

[ladyaubrey]

How evocative!!...unfortunately, I don't think of Stephen at all. I do so love the passage about lichens though! It called up thoughts of a spirit looking for a way to be born who is checking out tombstones to see if a name on it will indicate a future for it. THAT is timeless writing!!

did you see the costume links on my latest post? You may have already found them before, but I thought I would toggle them just in case.

[ghazalah]

unfortunately, I don't think of Stephen at all

Hee! I'm surprised it hasn't happened sooner. Sometimes the poems I pick are echoes of echoes... They all make perfect sense to me, but then, I can follow the bread-crumb trail through my psyche... :-D

Sharp dressed man? So, so there. :-)

[ladyaubrey]

How evocative!!...unfortunately, I don't think of Stephen at all. I do so love the passage about lichens though! It called up thoughts of a spirit looking for a way to be born who is checking out tombstones to see if a name on it will indicate a future for it. THAT is timeless writing!!

did you see the costume links on my latest post? You may have already found them before, but I thought I would toggle them just in case.

[sparowe]

Like a lonely ghost. It makes me think of a passage in the books that I don't know well enough to quote properly, about cousins that did not mind the "taint" of bastardy. Or something to that effect. It's always struck me as horribly unfair that a child should have to bear that, without even the understanding of it.

[ghazalah]

Doubly unfair, since the child had no part in it. It would be interesting to know how old he was when they died: does he remember either one of them?

I wonder if he might resent them, making him in unhallowed love then shuffling off to leave him alone with his uncalled-for existence.

I wonder too if his obsession with libertine Diana has anything to do with his mother. Perhaps reclaiming her somewhat, redeeming her?