Place by W.S. Merwin
What Was Told, Thatby Jalal al-Din Rumi, 1207 - 1273
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches? by Mary Oliver
Luxury by Albert Abonado
The Cuttlefish by Maryan Nagy Captan
email : Dear all,
There is no shortage of poems. Below this email, suggestions of new titles from the Academy of American Poets.Kindly mark your calendars: Poet Ralph Black, reading from his newest poetry collectionBloom and Laceration, which received the 2017 Hopper Poetry Prize from Green Writers Press, 2018. Book-signing to follow the reading. Thursday March 28th 2019 at 7:00 p.m. St. John Fisher College https://map.concept3d.com/?id=287#!m/63394In memoriam: W.S. Merwin:Naomi Shihab Nye, referring to Merwin, says. "How is it possible that poems which are a little bit mysterious help us to know so much more about our own lives?” Two articles about his life: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/opinion/w-s-merwin-poet-trees.htmlhttps://www.npr.org/2019/03/15/509122300/poet-w-s-merwin-who-was-inspired-by-conservation-dies-at-91"Suddenly using punctuation felt like nailing words on a page… "He was seeking something like the movement and lightness of the spoken word. Then, as he became more involved in the ecological movement, his poems began to root themselves in the Earth. And one of the most amazing things in this work is by the time he became a poet of old age he had sort of morphed into a poet of praise."
Place: (title) could be a noun or a verb. The poem leaves us with a sense of space, simultaneity.. time to reflect. contemplate. cause and effect. Each garden a world. What is the last day of the world? When you die? When our planet dies? … space forces you to slow down… reverently… as if walking in the serenity of the cemetery;
Brought up: *“You have the right to work, but for the work's sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working.
Bernie: not about his death… but planting a tree… thinking about the end of world. Buddhist… interested in this moment now…
Martin: appreciate the earth now… because it will be gone.
John Weisenthal brought up this video "with the guitar’s greatest poet."
https://youtu.be/8dXID4GM4oQ Go to minute 35: You will hear Segovia say this “folkloric poem”
The sigh told the tongue,
“go and search the words which could say what I cannot.”
a minute before, he explains poetry in Andalusia is a way to express what is felt in the heart.
Rumi: Check Shahin’s translation of the Song of the Reed. Our 20th century nature strives to fulfill its potential. but here in 13th
we have been given the good advice -- be the "what" you are!
Oliver: This poem is like her credo... all that you need to know... with a few chiding remarks, like
Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you? Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
In many ways, she is echoing Rumi and Merwin. Lovely poetic phrases, (curl of music) yet accessible.
"To sit down, like a weed among weeds, and rustle in the wind!
and the opening of the window no more difficult
than the wakening from a little sleep."
Diaz: At first, the opening line is puzzling given the title, until the fish metaphor starts to make sense.
Achii Ahaan ;to the true fish. The discussion included:
Juliet about Romeo… Dalai Lama: A call to revolution (of compassion)
2014. Waterways to have rights. Lake Erie… Glen Canyon… River Dam
Why Dam is now a 4 letter word.
Leave it to beavers. video.
Said the River, I gave you…
you damned me…
Albonado: local poet, his poem published in the Colorado Review. Wonderful repetitions, a listing of all he does NOT want to think about (but how can one not)... the luxury of feeling grateful...
Interesting comparison of the three-hearted cuttlefish (octopus family) with being an immigrant...
the third heart being the one who can reconcile the other two from different countries.
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