Each Friday we provide the link to the blog that is hosting a celebration of poetry around the blogosphere. At that site you can find the links to the many other blogs that are posting poems (new and old), discussions of poems, and reviews of poetry books.
Enjoy the festivities!
The host this week is Myra. You can visit her here at Gathering Books.
(Lost Time by Annelisse Molini, artist born
1966 in Puerto Rico)
“There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. We all know the old joke, ‘You’ve given up smoking once; I’ve given it up a dozen times.’ In the same way I could say of a certain man, ‘Have I forgiven him for what he did that day? I’ve forgiven him more times than I can count.’ For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.”
~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), English writer of essays, poems, and novels, including The Chronicles of Narnia
WHO’S WHO
A shilling life¹ will give you all the facts:
How Father beat him, how he ran away,
What were the struggles of his youth, what acts
Made him the greatest figure of his day:
Of how he fought, fished, hunted, worked all night,
Though giddy, climbed new mountains; named a sea:
Some of the last researches even write
Love made him weep his pints like you and me.
With all his honors on, he sighed for one
Who, say astonished critics, lived at home;
Did little jobs about the house with skill
And nothing else; could whistle, would sit still
Or potter round the garden; answered some
Of his long marvelous letters but kept none.
~ W. H. Auden (1907-1973), English-born American poet and essayist
¹shilling life – a short biographical sketch in the tabloid or penny press
"For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again."
ReplyDeleteSo true.