[poem in your pocket 2007]

[marginalia]

today is poem in your pocket day in new york, part of national poetry month. people have been posting poetry all month (which is awesome), but i pretty much only remember to do it on this day.

this year i am -still- not posting "marginalia". instead, i'm going with ee cummings. i spent two weeks last year looking for poems for art_geek & archie's wedding. in

Comments

[jubilancy]

That's a gorgeous choice for a wedding!

[starfishchick]

I really really want to write DS fic to this poem. (Unless someone has done it already? Why do I think someone has?)

HI.

[mayalin]

You can buy a silver bracelet with this poem inscribed at:
http://pyramidcollection.com/itemdy00.asp?c=j&T1=P16708&GEN1=Necklaces+Pendants+and+Bracelets&SKW=neck&PageNo=7

:)
mollie

[princeshetheran]

This is my favorite poem of all time. I have a copy of it framed and hanging in my bathroom. Thought you might enjoy it.

Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.

-- DEREK WALCOTT

[adularia]

*adds to memories*