Monday, September 23, 2013

ah! sunflower







Ah Sun-flower! weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the Sun:
Seeking after that sweet golden clime
Where the travellers journey is done.
Where the Youth pined away with desire,
And the pale Virgin shrouded in snow:
Arise from their graves and aspire,
Where my Sun-flower wishes to go. 

--William Blake

Thursday, September 5, 2013

marvel

...bring your marvel into yourself where it is anyway, your child you have too long tried to force upon the poor, assaulted objects of the world.
-Jason Sidwell

Monday, September 2, 2013

entering

...what happens next
Is undiminished for having happened once,
Twice, ten, a thousand times before.
Who cares if all the music that transpires
Is the fall of grit or dry seeds through a cactus?
You are like a rich man entering heaven
Through the ear of a raindrop. Listen now again.

-Seamus Heaney, from The Rainstick

in honor, courtesy poetryeater

collection


the river knows your name

chain

A subtle chain of countless rings
The next unto the farthest brings;
The eye reads omens where it goes,
And speaks all languages the rose;
And, striving to be man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson