Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?

Jan 15, 2010 15:30

take the leaf of a tree
trace its exact shape

the outside edges
and inner lines
memorize the way it is fastened to the twig

(and how the twig arches from the branch)

how it springs forth in April
how it is panoplied in July

by late August
crumple it in your hand
so that you smell its end-of-summer sadness

chew its woody stem
listen to its autumn rattle

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candleight January 15 2010, 11:45:21 UTC
Понравилось... :) Потому я и не поэт. :))

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time_digger January 15 2010, 23:08:41 UTC

Eve was sleeping in the class
leaves atomize first next year, about may-june

there's no shame in asking earthworms :)

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psilocybelarvae January 16 2010, 20:02:22 UTC
indeed, who knows better than earthworms)))

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