Comments on: Ruth Lilly https://www.roibal.us/ruth-lilly/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:42:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Larry via blackberry https://www.roibal.us/ruth-lilly/#comment-976 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:42:59 +0000 http://www.roibal.net/blog/?p=3020#comment-976 Beautiful Pat, thank you for sharing that.

I thought this Keats fit so beautifully, not just because of her association with poetry or as a metaphor for the end of a life, but the seeds planted over a lifetime of philanthropy to insure perpetual springs.

]]> By: Pat D https://www.roibal.us/ruth-lilly/#comment-975 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:35:30 +0000 http://www.roibal.net/blog/?p=3020#comment-975 Hi Larry, I’ve always loved Keats’ odes….so here goes….

Ode to March

A skeleton draped
in a wool coat
the sweet gum tree groans
with the weight
of the white
March snow
clumped on her limbs;

an involuntary muscle pops
off wads of white
silent explosions.

The sweet gum tree
rises glamourous
from her death.

Patricia Dougherty 2004

]]>