Gorgeous, Celia! I love your literary references and thank you for introducing me to Ivan.
Much to my surprise, I have discovered poetry is one of the most powerful ways to reach the masses—especially when spoken by people of the greatest integrity:
a few years ago a middle eastern musician friend was making a record. he crowdsourced the lyrics and was pleasantly surprised that so many of his friends wrote poetry and turned out to be quite good at it.
iirc the #1 bestseller in iraq on day one of the cheney/rumsfeld attack was a book of poetry.
i get the sense that when the dust settles we will have lots of books and no videos. can't wait.
Thank you for the introduction to this Russian poet. My favorite is Vladimir Mayakovsky. Although he drank the communist kool-aid, at times his poetry reaches heights and depths, sometimes funny, other times profound. His work has a great influence on mine. This was nice to see.
The closest thing to poetry that most people know are pop songs, which are far from the real experience of reading poetry.
Also, love songs are largely about codepence, exploitation and abuse, which is not at all what expressing love through poetry is about. Poetry demands participation from the reader, but many pop songs seem reject the listener, who is not allowed to even reach the category of a bystander.
Thanks for sharing this, I love it, it's so beautiful, I find a lot of comfort and inspiration in poetry and think it's so sad that more people have lost connection to it, it connects to soul and we need it I think, nuff said about the state of the world we live in.
This has some resonance with the poems of Olav Hauge, Norwegian poet of some note.
This was written in the year of my birth 1959. I have just finished writing my mother's obituary, this exact minute that this came into my inbox
God is truly walking with me today
Gorgeous, Celia! I love your literary references and thank you for introducing me to Ivan.
Much to my surprise, I have discovered poetry is one of the most powerful ways to reach the masses—especially when spoken by people of the greatest integrity:
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-one-poem-to
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-an-anthem-57a
• https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/mistakes-were-not-made-video-dr-mike
I love it.
Do not cut me down. Love me instead.
amen
I sense a definitive lack of poetry ,
and as such,
A lack of rhyme or reason....
Great Substack handle!
I adore this poem!
Green grows the grasshoppers
.
Sing trees the birds adore.
.
Come swinging closer to me , sway...
From MariGolds...GK
Never forget Roethke, Celia. “What falls away is always, and is near.”
Poetry is not dead, it's been coopted.
But it's returning, as is philosophy. See the beat poetry of inner city dwellers globally and the "standup poetry" nights in parts of USA and Europe.
I hope we will have a resurgence in philosophy schools and romanticism. For what feeds the mind, feeds the soul.😉
Wisdom Schools, where the Heart is also involved as part of the discussion
As an eager undergrad
A second language was sought
But Latin is dead, she said
Yes, precisely ;)
a few years ago a middle eastern musician friend was making a record. he crowdsourced the lyrics and was pleasantly surprised that so many of his friends wrote poetry and turned out to be quite good at it.
iirc the #1 bestseller in iraq on day one of the cheney/rumsfeld attack was a book of poetry.
i get the sense that when the dust settles we will have lots of books and no videos. can't wait.
Unfortunately fewer and fewer people read. Or know how to, thanks to public education.
I love the poem:
I'm all of rough bark
I'm all
of pine branch ...
One line after the other ... the flow.
Thank you for the introduction to this Russian poet. My favorite is Vladimir Mayakovsky. Although he drank the communist kool-aid, at times his poetry reaches heights and depths, sometimes funny, other times profound. His work has a great influence on mine. This was nice to see.
I love this poem so much!! Thank you.
The closest thing to poetry that most people know are pop songs, which are far from the real experience of reading poetry.
Also, love songs are largely about codepence, exploitation and abuse, which is not at all what expressing love through poetry is about. Poetry demands participation from the reader, but many pop songs seem reject the listener, who is not allowed to even reach the category of a bystander.
Beautiful! Chills down the spine recognition....I agree. The predators are trying to destroy all of the Arts. Thanks for posting this!
Thanks for sharing this, I love it, it's so beautiful, I find a lot of comfort and inspiration in poetry and think it's so sad that more people have lost connection to it, it connects to soul and we need it I think, nuff said about the state of the world we live in.