Comments | two_if_by_sea: field over heart means remember

two_if_by_sea

field over heart means remember

Mar 25, 2011 23:23

why yes i am procrastinating, shut up.

what to say when they ask you why you write poetry III
February 2011

Hold everything you touch. -- "Shutter Dove", by Carrie Rudzinski

It was February and I braved the weather,
the roads frozen over with December's rain,
to listen to two women poets read their work.
( & one more, plus two poems by Kimiko Hahn. )

poetry

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jibrailis March 26 2011, 04:38:43 UTC

I wish I had something more meaningful to say than these are all beautiful, because then I would pick through them, unraveling lines and marveling at meanings, but just suffice to say, for now, that they are beautiful, and they do what I think poetry should do. Which is to startle me and wake me from a quiet sleep.

two_if_by_sea March 26 2011, 04:50:31 UTC

♥ Nancy, Nancy~ why are you always so sweet to me. Thank you for reading my blithering attempts at poetry.

Also I really wanted to post this one poem by Kimiko Hahn, called "The Izu Dancer", but I couldn't find it online ;___; but I think you would really like it, because it is about identity, and translation, and the loss of meaning in words, and also, of course, love.

jibrailis March 26 2011, 05:06:27 UTC

Well, poetry is my first love and it is no hardship to read an elegantly crafted origami layer of a poem.

I'll have to check out Kimiko Hahn! "The Izu Dancer" sounds fantastic.

arboretum March 26 2011, 08:20:34 UTC

these are all gorgeous

two_if_by_sea March 30 2011, 02:38:40 UTC

just as you are gorgeous. ♥ p.s. whenever i see your twitter icon on tweetdeck it's like a really enthusiastic kitty is peeking in on my desktop and I just go :D :D :D :D at it.

weatherfront March 26 2011, 14:55:00 UTC

I love your prose. I love your poetry. ♥ I hate, hate, hate you.

two_if_by_sea March 30 2011, 02:39:05 UTC

NOOOOOOOO--- wait. The feeling is mutual.

bookshop March 26 2011, 15:23:50 UTC

oh, cathy.

i love all these poems, but i love the second one the most. arthur get off the inter - no, but seriously, thank you for reminding me that we are all beautiful in our self-righteous isolation. and all of us deserve grand romantic gestures.

two_if_by_sea March 30 2011, 02:41:03 UTC

If only the world was made of grand romantic gestures, and we had no need for self-righteous isolation, only happy companionship. ♥

lihsa March 26 2011, 17:00:17 UTC

I always love your poetry posts! Absolutely gorgeous.

two_if_by_sea March 30 2011, 02:42:57 UTC

Thank you, always. ♥