The first Wednesday in October is Random Acts of Poetry Day, a day to share poetry in public. I wrote a bit about it last year. My plan today is to post the poem below somewhere in the hospital I am currently visiting...
So hard to choose! Rilke, Oliver, Wiman...so many others! So I settled on Sonnet 29 from Shakespeare, with memories of reciting in high school English class.
Here's an oldie by William Blake:
Eternity
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
Thus can one fall in love with a piece of soap, a dead mouse, a seamstress or a dahlia in early morning light. Thank you, Julie, and Billy Collins.
Love that, Babbie. Thanks for sharing!
So hard to choose! Rilke, Oliver, Wiman...so many others! So I settled on Sonnet 29 from Shakespeare, with memories of reciting in high school English class.
Thanks for that flashback to high school! It is hard to choose just one.