The Poetry, Essays and Personal Journals of Larry L. Dill
The Last Sunday Night of the
Twentieth Century
A collection of 17 new poems in the Poetry Project, the online publication of 4 decades of poetry by Larry L. Dill
Christmas at 45
Time speeds up toward the end
and the urgency of conveying your message
becomes more and
more acute. Partly out pride.
But it all boils down to love songs
and how you couldn't get enough of them
and how you wanted to give them and yourself away
and be loved for that, too.
The whole project has been about
your longing and how you keep losing
the thread of eternity,
the thread of sweetness and light,
and that's why you write.
And Christmas and its promises
keeps coming back around
like the scratch on a record,
a familiar little lesson in humility
to remind you of the task.
--New York City, 1989
Other new poems in this issue
Complete Index of the Poetry Project
The November Issue of The New Hope Journal
Complete Site Index
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