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love at the laundromat!

I have been guilty of neglecting my blog lately. I guess I have been overpowered by work and it seems block out ideas for new blogs.:) After continuous encouragement from a friend, I am finally putting something down after more than a week of not writing in my blog. Until you start blogging, you don't realize that blogging is like exercise or yoga for the emotions. Its like breathing in the positive energy and taking out that crap that plagues the mind.

Actually for this transmission, I would like to share this cool poem. I have shared this poem with a couple of people before. The poem is written by a talented Canadian high school student.

love at the laundromat!

Down at the
laundromat
I'm watching
my clothes
tumble
and dry in
the steamy heat
grappling and groping
with each other

I watch my socks
fondle the underwear
while my shirt
embraces
the legs of my jeans,
and every item seems to be
getting it on
with the sheets
throwing a discreet cover
over everything

and I wonder
about all this embracing
and why what I wear
does not hug me so hard
nor caress with such care.

Geoff SansomActon High SchoolActon, Ontario

http://www.wier.ca/coolpoems/laundromatlove.html

The words used in the poem are pretty straight forward, but the concept and metaphor used is witty and humorous. If you ponder on the message of the author, it has a profound meaning that relates to most of us at some point of time in our lives. What the writer is trying say is we see romantic love all around us. We can see it on the TV, in the movies, on Billboards, our neighborhood and even amongst our friends. Even though it is all around us, is it possible to understand what love means without ever experiencing it? I think, these might be the thoughts that are going thru the writer's mind and probably in the minds of many people out here to.

posted by edii @ 9:34 AM