I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon!
Or possibly (fantastic, I confess)
It may be Prester John's balloon
Or an old battered lantern hung aloft
To light poor travellers to their distress.”
She then: “How you digress!”
And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys
That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain
The night and moonshine; music which we seize
To body forth our own vacuity.”
She then: “Does this refer to me?”
“Oh no, it is I who am inane.”
“You, madam, are the eternal humorist,
The eternal enemy of the absolute,
Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist!
With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute-”
And-”Are we then so serious?”
Conversation Galante
T. S. Eliot
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Poem topics: friend, light, moon, music, night, poor, enemy, observe, body, explain, absolute, distress, eternal, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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