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The Sphinx
Written by Reely | Thursday, 10 January 2008 16:37
Isn't the mythological Sphinx a woman? That's what I thought, anyway. In Jared Carter's poem by the same name, the Sphinx is an "it" -- so it can't be the pharoah Sphinx either, but whatever it is -- here's an excerpt from the poem:
The Sphinx
It lives on, and with each new day, asks
the old questions, of strangers passing by,
or even of itself. Often I have heard it
calling across the wastes, like a hot wind
and a link where you can read the rest, and a lot of other poems which are as beautifully presented as they are written.
Happy Birthday, Jared Carter.
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Thank you so much for noticing my birthday, for commenting on my poem, and for providing a link to that poem and to my web site. I appreciate it. Too many bloggers appropriate web-based poems without providing links back to the originals. In contrast, you've set a fine example of online acknowledgment and old-fashioned courtesy.
Jared Carter
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