Elation

[pharm1215]

Those moments before a poem comes,
when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you
realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.
I run around, you know, kind of skipping
around the house, marvelous elation.
It's as though I could fly.
~ Anne Sexton

Comments

[glass_doll]

love her, as you know

[pharm1215]

Anne was my first poetry idol. Don't remember if I ever showed you my tribute poem for her that I wrote in class.

DEAREST ANNE

Your words sealed to page,
brick to brick by concrete
create you: a woman with coffee
hair placed on top a tall,
straw like body-a camera’s desire.

Housewife, mother, best
remembered as a poet.
I know of the husband
And two children, the struggles
they brought you.
A wife to feel belonging,
a mother by guilt.

You wrote you had
gone out a possessed witch.
You haunted your life,
wanting to belong, to earn recognition;
you are my kind.

[glass_doll]

you did hare that with me and its awesome

[pharm1215]

I'm scatter brained...... but I did write it almost a year ago, or two years... hell, if I remember.

Glad you like. THANKS!

[wildtiger2004]

And that's why she's wonderful.

[pharm1215]

oh, she is much more than wonderful my friend!

[ndo]

“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”

For that statement alone, she is one of the best.

"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”

This is why I can no longer be the poet I once was. It gets harder and harder to remember what it feels like to genuinely feel exuberant. I'm reading a collection put together by Garrison Keilor called "Good Poems" and he holds Sexton up as one of the greatest as well. Coincidentally(?) I just read the line, “The joy that isn't shared dies young,” last night. She is a continuing fountain of inspiration, and one of the few poets whose lines I remember.

[pharm1215]

What Sexton poems are included in the collection?

[ndo]

"Welcome Morning" and "Courage"