Monday, October 03, 2005
A Lyrical Moment - Omar Khayyam
(imagine a tree overhead)
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough
A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh! Wilderness were Paradise enow.
-from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-
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About Me
- Kelli McBride
- Oklahoma
- ABD, Associate Professor of Language Arts & Humanities at an Oklahoma 2-year college; web site designer; devoted aunt to Lauren.
5 comments:
HOW can I imagine a tree when all I see is someone I want to build sand castles with???? LOL.
Nice poem.
It IS a lovely poem :)
It's a tree made of sand. ;-)
Actually, who cares about the wine, the bread, or the verse. Let's get down to the nitty gritty. Well, perhaps 'gritty' isn't the best term. ;-)
Isn't he beautiful?
He is handsome :)