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Category Archives: Poetry

Ash Wednesday

6th

Feb. × ’08

By Gentle

Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent which is a period of 40 days before Easter. Thought I’d share this bit of Ash Wednesday by T.S. Eliot from the 6th verse;
VI
Although I do not hope to turn again
Although I do not hope
Although I do not hope to turn
Wavering between the profit and the [...]

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Spam…Poem?

1st

Feb. × ’08

By Gentle

I don’t usually post bits of information on here that don’t pertain directly to the arts in someway, so please pardon my personal parlance. Maybe the connection here is that spam can be poetic?
This was found in our “inbox” this morning:
From: Anonymous
Subject: Rearranging
Guten Tag,
It, it is enough. What would you have me do, my there [...]

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Rilke on a Monday

22nd

Oct. × ’07

By Gentle

To Music
Rainer Maria Rilke
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
Feelings for whom? O you the transformation
of feelings into what?-: into audible landscape.
You stranger: music. You heart-space
grown out of us. The deepest space in us,
which, rising above us, forces its way out,-
holy [...]

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“In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country”

26th

Sep. × ’07

By Gentle

Autumn
by T. E. Hulme (Thomas Ernest Hulme)
A touch of cold in the Autumn night—
I walked abroad,
And saw the ruddy moon lean over a hedge
Like a red-faced farmer.
I did not stop to speak, but nodded,
And round about were the wistful stars
With white faces like town children.
The Beautiful Changes
by Richard Wilbur
One wading a Fall meadow finds on [...]