{"id":1779,"date":"2004-12-16T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2018-07-30T05:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T10:48:29","slug":"1779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/16\/1779\/","title":{"rendered":"A Carved Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps it’s the end of the year and time to just dump old DOC files that I converted from WPS files which I converted from the original LotusWorks files I created in my prolific college period, but since I saw Edmund Spenser’s “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” over at Pejmanesque<\/a>, I thought it only fitting to present my responses:<\/p>\n

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A Carved Tree (I)<\/b>
\nCopyright 1991 Brian J. Noggle, you illegal poem-sharing rabble<\/p>\n

One day I carved her name into a tree
\nwith mine inside a Cupid-arrowed heart.
\nWhen I had closed my knife, she checked my art,
\nand shook her head, and then she looked at me.
\n“Now why’d you come and maim this oak?” asked she.
\n“Here in the woods, it lived its life apart,
\nbut now the awful manly meddlings start.
\nThis tree will never have its privacy.”
\n“I maimed this oak so everyone could see
\nour names as linked for all Eternity,
\nand I must admit to you, my deified,
\nI like our love like this, objectified,
\nso that it’s not another petty ‘love’,
\nbut like a natural law passed from above.”<\/p>\n

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A Carved Tree (II)<\/b>
\nAlso Copyright 1991 Brian J. Noggle,
so don’t repost without permission, Harvey<\/p>\n

This quiet spot, beneath this ancient oak,
\nis where I come to think on brooding days.
\nThe open sky is blue and mocks the strays
\nthat cower underneath the leafy cloak.
\nI sit and sip my slowly warming Coke,
\nand stumble through my memory, a maze
\nof many cul-de-sacs of yesterdays.
\nI remember how, beneath this tree, we spoke….
\nAbove my head, carved by my careful hand,
\nthe heart and letters of a “Brian and ….”
\nI remember once, the reckless words I said,
\nin love’s embrace of sweetly muddled head.
\nWith human eyes, a truth is now revealed:
\nThat higher laws can also be repealed.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE:<\/font> This poem, and many others, are available in my 2018 collection Coffee House Memories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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