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Meeting Point: Louis Macneice

This poem describes two people sitting in a coffee shop where time seems to stop still. While physically in the coffee shop, their minds wander to far off places like deserts and forests. The stopping of time allows them to fully connect with each other in a moment of intimacy and peace.

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Meeting Point: Louis Macneice

This poem describes two people sitting in a coffee shop where time seems to stop still. While physically in the coffee shop, their minds wander to far off places like deserts and forests. The stopping of time allows them to fully connect with each other in a moment of intimacy and peace.

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Meeting Point

BY LOU IS MACNE ICE

Time was away and somewhere else,


There were two glasses and two chairs
And two people with the one pulse
(Somebody stopped the moving stairs):
Time was away and somewhere else.

And they were neither up nor down;


The stream’s music did not stop
Flowing through heather, limpid brown,
Although they sat in a coffee shop
And they were neither up nor down.

The bell was silent in the air


Holding its inverted poise—
Between the clang and clang a flower,
A brazen calyx of no noise:
The bell was silent in the air.

The camels crossed the miles of sand


That stretched around the cups and plates;
The desert was their own, they planned
To portion out the stars and dates:
The camels crossed the miles of sand.

Time was away and somewhere else.


The waiter did not come, the clock
Forgot them and the radio waltz
Came out like water from a rock:
Time was away and somewhere else.

Her fingers flicked away the ash


That bloomed again in tropic trees:
Not caring if the markets crash
When they had forests such as these,
Her fingers flicked away the ash.

God or whatever means the Good


Be praised that time can stop like this,
That what the heart has understood
Can verify in the body’s peace
God or whatever means the Good.

Time was away and she was here


And life no longer what it was,
The bell was silent in the air
And all the room one glow because
Time was away and she was here.

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