Poem for your Sunday 🌸
~Lisel Mueller
THERE ARE MORNINGS
—I step outside and the sky opens and pours itself into me as if I were a saint/But the plot calls for me to live, be ordinary, say nothing—
I like this beautiful poem from the latest @newyorker.com
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
~ Mary Shelley
Linda Pastan: always on the money; always prescient.
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Charles Simic, for your late-winter blues
“and turning the corner at what you thought was the end /
of the road, you found just a simple reflection,”
Timely as ever…
Looking forward to this: now more than ever it’s such a tonic it ought to be available on prescription.
Sunday, 17:10, UK, available elsewhere on BBC website, BBC Sounds etc shortly after.
#theverb #poetry
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Winter pairs this music with its own
Insistent monody, a beat behind.
Light falls in staves through old venetian blinds
- John Richard Reed, "Leaves from a Partbook: Fantasia for a Viol Consort"
Beautiful. I went from scrolling the news to this, insanity to the sublime in seconds.
New York doesn't have a monopoly on this kind of picture. Construction of Co-operative Insurance Society tower, Manchester, 1960s (Manchester Libraries).
The story behind Poems on the Underground
I’ve missed your first cups of tea - so pleased to find you making a brew here! It’s a lovely spot.
From David Lerner’s Mein Kampf:
“all I want to do
is make poetry famous
all I want to do is
burn my initials into the sun
all I want to do is
read poetry from the middle of a
burning building...”
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On the value of sorrow:
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Beyond the bare honesty there's much truth in this, and for anyone who needs it, some beautiful encouragement to stick with it.
Something beautiful for you.
• Linda Pastan •
What we call the beginning is often the end and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Happy Solstice
Dear all,
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The Editors
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Congratulations Paul! A wonderful read, and an impressive range across the three. 👏
“Sometimes I am so surprised I show up to write a poem completely empty and yet, something shows up. Just keep making space for your work. Even if it doesn't make sense.”
-- Kelli Russell Agodon
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Liminality
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.
William Blake
I came across this poem in Mark Strand’s Collected Poems just yesterday; it struck me so powerfully as so much of his work does.
Two of our giants of poetry--Charles Wright & Mark Strand,conferring in,& toasting,the late light. Masters of the line,masters of the image--(& if Merwin & Simic had been there that Oct 9,2014,you'd basically have the corner on the"deep image"in the mid 20th C).We miss Mark, gone 11 years. Read him.
Linda Pastan
