LIVING BETWEEN RAGE AND NOSTALGIA <br /> <br /> <br />Rage and nostalgia are seated together, <br />while I at their table write yet one more page <br />of poetry, feeling quite sure that bad weather <br />won't spoil the experience, for I'll never age. <br /> <br />Thanks be, I am luck to be here like Dannie, <br />nostalgic at times, although sometimes I rage, <br />but here is the fact that I find most uncanny: <br />by only connecting we both can engage. <br /> <br />Benjamin Ivry ("Dannie Abse Brings Jewish Twist to Wales, " Forward,4/27/12) writes about the WelshJewish octogenarian poet, Dannie Abse, whom the Queen has recently honored with a CBE. At the end of his article Ivry cites Dannie's poem, "Valediction, " which inspired this poem: <br /> <br />In this exile people call old age <br />I live between nostalgia and rage. <br />This is the land of fools and fear. <br />Thanks be. I'm lucky to be here. <br /> <br /> <br />5/5/12 #10,099<br /><br />gershon hepner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/living-between-rage-and-nostalgia/
