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| Mittineague Park, October 26, 2010. Photo by Bruce Barone. |
A few lines from a favorite poem:
What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering;
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.~William Wordsworth.
ODE--INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
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I ask them to take a poem
ReplyDeleteand hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
Billy Collins
Thanks, Steve.
ReplyDeleteI love Billy Collins. My daughter gave me one of his books for a Christmas present a few years ago.
Ah this is the deep-thinking blogger's corner on a Tuesday afternoon! Bruce & Steve, love the poetry and of course the photos! Makes me want to leave the office right now and go for a New England stroll with a poetry book in hand...
ReplyDeleteLove love Love this!! Bruce, we are seriously living some sort of parallel lives... my post today completely jives with yours! peace
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