Apparently It's World Poetry Day
Mar. 21st, 2012 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholmBasho Street Kids
How can I hope to
Say something profound in just
Seventeen syllab--
Okay - that was written in haste. But it gives me the chance to mention this interesting radio programme on Basho and the Tsunami. It's available until Lady Day.
How can I hope to
Say something profound in just
Seventeen syllab--
Okay - that was written in haste. But it gives me the chance to mention this interesting radio programme on Basho and the Tsunami. It's available until Lady Day.
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(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-21 11:14 am (UTC)The firelight gleams
Macbeth and his dagger
Are ready to murder sleep.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-21 11:18 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-21 11:21 am (UTC)I write these to keep my hand in while I await inspiration for longer stuff!
(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-21 02:02 pm (UTC)Aki no Zukofsky
Date: 2012-03-21 02:47 pm (UTC)Re: Aki no Zukofsky
Date: 2012-03-21 05:06 pm (UTC)I like.
Re: Aki no Zukofsky
Date: 2012-03-21 05:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-03-21 03:05 pm (UTC)how can it be possible
to continue on?
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Date: 2012-03-21 05:06 pm (UTC)Speak, thereof we must remain
Silent." (Wittgenstein)
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Date: 2012-03-21 05:09 pm (UTC)written a few years ago but appropriate
Date: 2012-03-22 12:03 am (UTC)Filling the schools and streets with human sound;
About the rest we must be silent, dear.
Our impulse? Just the usual -- a fear
The Cloud of Unknowing cannot be bound.
What can be said, we speak out loud and clear,
To blow by repetition, often and sincere,
The fog away, restating what we've found.
About the rest, we must be silent, dear.
The words are awkward, rumbling, light, austere,
Or sometimes sudden, waiting for the profound:
What can be said, we speak out loud and clear.
Yet other words are echoes for the ear,
A tapping cane with which we map the ground
About the rest. We must be silent, dear,
Before the bank of future knowledge -- here,
Where dragons bark and ignorance surrounds
What can be said. We speak out loud and clear
About the rest. We must. Be silent, dear.
Re: written a few years ago but appropriate
Date: 2012-03-22 07:56 am (UTC)Re: written a few years ago but appropriate
Date: 2012-03-22 03:15 pm (UTC)---L.