Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Beautiful Changes
One wading a fall meadow finds on all sides
The Queen Anne's Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of
You
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a chameleon's tuning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.
Your hands hold roses always in a way that
Says
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes
In such kind ways,
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things' selves for a second finding,
to lose
For a moment all that it touches back to
wonder.
-Richard Wilbur
Also, lyrics of the song I'm listening to right now:
The world is alive now, in and outside our home
You run through the forest, settle before the sun
Darling, I can barely remember you beside me
You should come back home, back on your own now
And even in the light, when the woman of the woods came by
To give to you the word of the old man
In the morning tide when the sparrow and the seagull fly
And Jonathan and Evelyn get tired
Lie to me if you will at the top of Beringer Hill
Tell me anything you want, any old lie will do
Call me back to you.
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Oooh, a picture AND link. Look at you layin down the technologies! Nice Turner. Nice flowers. Nice poem. Nice lyrics - what's the song? Love all the poems.
ReplyDeleteGlad you like. And that I figured out the pictures and hyperlinking. I felt rather the master of the technologies. The song was on the Fleet Foxes album, can't remember which one. I think I like the album...some of the songs all sound the same, but their lyrics are rockin.
ReplyDeletequite pastoral and I love it. I'm into nature right now. I've been into romanticism lately and Turner is my man. are these fleet foxes cool dudes?
ReplyDeletePastoral indeed! You go, nature, for the win. Turner is basically my favorite person in this entire world. Oh man. I'm liking those Fleet Foxes kids a'ight. I think they're growing on me, such that I will eventually be rather a large fan. Happy Christmas, Matthew :)
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