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Home » Posts Tagged "poetry"
How Can You Become a Poet
  • Poetry
May04

How Can You Become a...

posted by DJL

Eve Mirriam, a native of Philadelphia, captures something of the beauty of not just poetry but also, I think, creativity itself. She invites us to consider making two moves: the first is attentiveness. Trace it’s shape, pay attention to its movement, follow its life, chew and smell and see...

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A Final Affection
  • Poetry
Apr27

A Final Affection

posted by DJL

Some weeks finding a poem is easy. I’m in the mood for something related to a season or event or have a particular poet (or even poem!) in mind. This week wasn’t one of those. Instead, I skimmed – I know this isn’t the way you’re supposed to read poetry, but sometimes that’s just...

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Let Evening Come
  • Poetry
Apr20

Let Evening Come

posted by DJL

One of the things that most defines good poetry for me is what I would call its “evocativeness.” Does the poet not just describe a setting but evoke a feeling, a memory, a sensory reaction? Jane Kenyon absolutely does that in her poem “Let Evening Come.” Whether you grew up in...

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Water Lilies
  • Poetry
Apr13

Water Lilies

posted by DJL

There is something so irresistibly sad, or melancholy, or nostalgic, about Sara Teasdale’s poem “Water Lilies” that I find absolutely haunting. Actually, none of those words – sad, melancholy, nostalgic – is quite right. And maybe that’s what I like about this poem: it evokes a...

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Easter Saturday
  • Poetry
Mar30

Easter Saturday

posted by DJL

Holy Saturday, for all practical purposes, is usually given over to preparing for Sunday. Making sure the ham has been purchased and ready to cook, decorating eggs, readying decorations, cleaning the house. But once in a while – or perhaps even for just a few moments of the day – it might...

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Spring and All
  • Poetry
Mar23

Spring and All

posted by DJL

I have spent the last week in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, visiting family and friends we haven’t seen for too long. We were eager to escape the clutches of another long and cold Minnesota winter, if even for a few days, but chanced upon just the kind of spring William Carlos Williams...

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Tell it Slant
  • Poetry
Mar09

Tell it Slant

posted by DJL

This Sunday millions of Christians will hear the beloved and well known Parable of the Prodigal Son. Or is it the Parable of the Waiting Father? Or perhaps the Parable of the Lost Elder Brother? Or maybe simply the Parable of the Two Brothers? Parables weren’t actually named in the Bible,...

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Interim Time
  • Poetry
Mar02

Interim Time

posted by DJL

It was March 1 yesterday and here in Minnesota we still have four to six inches of snow on the ground. But temps have been above zero for a week or so and more importantly – or at least more inspiring – the birds are singing. Which means that while winter isn’t quite done, spring is most...

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Forgetfulness
  • Poetry
Feb23

Forgetfulness

posted by DJL

I didn’t set out to make February “Billy Collins Month”, but it appears that I have. ☺ So one more of my favorites: “Forgetfulness.” If you have a parent or sibling or friend who has experienced memory loss, you know how painful and frightening it can be. Memory, in so many ways,...

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Absence
  • Poetry
Feb16

Absence

posted by DJL

I am on a Billy Collins kick of late. I don’t usually choose from the same poet this often, but you’ll have to forgive me: it’s February. And my school is currently a mess. And I feel I’ve been pulled to one of those unexpected and, frankly, uninvited vocational and existential...

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As I Walked Out One Evening
  • Poetry
Feb02

As I Walked Out One Evening

posted by DJL

There has been a lot written about W. H. Auden’s “As I Walked Out One Evening.” But rather than read or write about it, I invite you instead simply to listen to Auden himself recite it. As you do, the clash of themes – the power of love, the relentlessness of time, the beauty and fragility of being human – all emerge. Some poetry is as much meant to be heard as read, and I think this is one of those. Enjoy. As I walked out one evening,     Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement     Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river     I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway:    ...

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