A rollicking sermon... Enjoyed
"Kisses can kiss us" - Gertrude Stein; Readings... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...ertrude-stein/
A rollicking sermon... Enjoyed
"Kisses can kiss us" - Gertrude Stein; Readings... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...ertrude-stein/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Enjoyed the synthetic and somewhat cryptic poem.
"let it go – the"."let it go – the" e.e. cummings
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2011/0...-cummings/amp/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Another enigmatic offering by e.e.. Found the following as a worthy attempt to unravel... https://missprint.wordpress.com/2016...y-ee-cummings/ Enjoyed
"Morning thick with inscrutable dinge;" - Erin Belieu; Late Autumnal, with Cockroach... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...recently_added
... the link works then blips out then works then blips out... captured somehow as:
Morning thick with inscrutable dinge;
another season drained. I’m watching
the pest control man fill the rat bait
station, black attaché of poison hidden
in the hedge.
And while I pay a monthly
bill for him to do my killing, still
it seems miraculous, how much insists
on surviving, despite us. What grinds it
out. What hustles simply to continue.
Like this plumply enormous
roach, its carapace the molten brown of
topaz, tooled cannily to fold into a ceaseless
package: look at it now collapsing to fit exactly
between my deck’s wooden slats.
No matter what unspeakable
agents we devise for it to carry to its nest,
there comes a calm in knowing there will always
be an awful, inexorable more of something,
other than us, to crawl or slither, gnaw & be
gnawed; a peaceful certainty of moreness,
creeping through our filth to greet what’s
coming soon.
Unloved, ingenious creatures,
the few truly diligent, whom we can never
drive off or annihilate completely, this poem
remembers you, waiting in our unplugged
cracks & fuming sewers, seeing the relentless
engines you’ve willed yourselves to be, the valor
of your tidy & despised machinery.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2024)
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tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
The analysis of Miss Print makes sense. Somehow one has to get read of relationships that don´t work anymore to make room for those relationships that matter. But I don´t think, in real life things are so cleanly cut out. One carries relationships along that are often mixed. And one needs them as they are.
There is also an aspect the poem doesn´t contemplate: the people or circunstances that let one go, whether one is prepared or no.
re poem: Thanks for posting the poem. I think that is former generous poetry foundation making life difficult for non subscribers.
The poem might be written by Clarice Lispector, who had a fascination for roaches:https://miamiartscharter.net/ourpage...th%20Story.pdf (Don´t know who the translator is, but the translation is good)
"A NARROW Fellow in the Grass"."A narrow Fellow in the Grass [cc]" by Emily Dickinson
https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/dickin01.html#22
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Enjoyed ! "Yet when a Boy, and Barefoot--"... channeling a young boy ?
"Oh, who will hush that cry outside the doors," - Josephine Preston Peabody; The Feaster... https://www.poetrycat.com/josephine-...dy/the-feaster
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
I think ED is impersonating a childhood remembrance of a male lyric voice
"O house me, glories! Give me house and home/Here for my homelessness." AI!
"Perch on their water perch hung in the clear Bann River"."The Perch" by Seamus Heaney
https://www.poetrycat.com/seamus-heaney/the-perch
Found this analysis:
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/p...main%20unmoved.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Wonderful language ! Such a dreamy waterscape... enjoyed very muchEnjoyed the background and analysis too
"Queen of the silver bow! — by thy pale beam," - Charlotte Smith; SONNET [04] IV. To the Moon.... https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....cs-w0040.shtml
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Enjoyed the sonnet! How many women poets are there in this collection of the eighteenth century!
"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise"."By a Person of Quality." by Mary Barber
https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry....35-w1060.shtml
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
"Remote from Strife, from urban Throngs, and Noise.
Here dwells my Soul amidst domestic Joys:
...
Wrapt up in all the Sweets of rural Ease,
My great Creator's Works my Senses please.
The Mind, in peaceful Solitude, has Room
To range in Thought, and ramble far from home,
...
"Whilst I, in sacred Silence, truly live."
Ah yes, why I moved to the country... if it wasn't for fire danger here it would be more than adequate. There are other avenues to pursue... seaside haunts have always been on my mind... perhaps.
"She always writes poems. This summer" - Marie Ponsot; The Problem of Fiction... https://readalittlepoetry.com/2005/0...-marie-ponsot/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
"Read a Little Poetry" has become a paid site but found the poem here:https://exceptindreams.livejournal.com/575399.html
Loved it(only a bit too much biting in it). But the problem of fiction would be making fiction with the elements you have.
Living in the country or at the seaside must be lovely. I never lived on the country, but in small towns and I liked it at the time.
Today I probably would have to get used to them again, because São Paulo is an immensity.
"The heart of a bear is a cloud-shuttered"."Arrhythmia" by Hailey Leithauser
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/arrhythmia/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Not paywalled here yet
Wonderful poem with twists and turns for language... enjoyed so very much
"Upon a Lilac Sea" - Emily Dickinson; 'Upon a Lilac Sea'... https://eliteskills.com/c/5673
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
I confess I am a bit confused about the interpretation of E Ds poem. The interpretation refers to several lines that are not in the poem. I looked up other posts of the poem to see if this is an abridged version but the versions I found are all alike.
"visiting a past self. Being anywhere makes me thirsty."Being in This World Makes Me Feel Like a Time Traveler" by Kaveh Akbar
https://readalittlepoetry.com/2020/0...veh-akbar/amp/
(Seems there are currently two versions of "Read a Little Poetry" on line: the older one we have been using and the new one associated with a paid site).
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Lololol... you're right !
Intriguing poem with its wonderful last line
"When you caught one to keep," - Kimberly Casey; Golden Hour... https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/golden-hour/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
"Golden Hour". Impressive poem about "natural" violence.
"X marks". "X Marks the Spot" by Sage Sweetwater
https://www.authorsden.com/visit/vie...AuthorID=29292
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Enjoyed
"You and I, our hands" - Anthony Orozco; mano a mano... https://www.thenasiona.com/2020/03/0...nthony-orozco/
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
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