new old kid on the blog, with an occasional old or new poem written off the old writer's block
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Definitely Not Lemmings #12
My thanks to Katie Murray aka don't be emily for becoming DNL #12; here's the link to her Promethean-inspired blog.
On the Way to Parnassus
This much remains certain,
Above all: We shall rise
To unknown mythical heights;
But how low
Must we go to know?
Above all: We shall rise
To unknown mythical heights;
But how low
Must we go to know?
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
The Dismantling
We shall not cease from exploration,
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Before
Our most enlightening eviction,
We thought
We had every right
To squat here
Undutifully derelict,
Oblivious to light.
.
This gift, this blinding
Edifice of beauty
We took for granted, we lost sight,
Though our instructions were simple—
Before you lose it forever,
Take it down
In glorious black and white.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
--T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Before
Our most enlightening eviction,
We thought
We had every right
To squat here
Undutifully derelict,
Oblivious to light.
.
This gift, this blinding
Edifice of beauty
We took for granted, we lost sight,
Though our instructions were simple—
Before you lose it forever,
Take it down
In glorious black and white.
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