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Poetry and Repetition
September 9th, 2010 Reading & LiteratureTags: John Ashberry, poems, poetry
Lately I’ve been spending some time reading poetry online. I miss words, I miss verses. I miss reading poems while I hold my breath and let out a sigh at the end of the piece. I love to hear the music in a poem, to go with the flow of sentiments in it, and make meanings out of ambiguities.
Most of all, I love repetition.
The New Higher
John Ashbery
You meant more than life to me. I lived through
you not knowing, not knowing I was living.
I learned that you called for me. I came to where
you were living, up a stair. There was no one there.
No one to appreciate me. The legality of it
upset a chair. Many times to celebrate
we were called together and where
we had been there was nothing there,
nothing that is anywhere. We passed obliquely,
leaving no stare. When the sun was done muttering,
in an optimistic way, it was time to leave that there.
Blithely passing in and out of where, blushing shyly
at the tag on the overcoat near the window where
the outside crept away, I put aside the there and now.
Now it was time to stumble anew,
blacking out when time came in the window.
There was not much of it left.
I laughed and put my hands shyly
across your eyes. Can you see now?
Yes I can see I am only in the where
where the blossoming stream takes off, under your window.
Go presently you said. Go from my window.
I am half in love with your window I cannot undermine
it, I said.
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June 22nd, 2009 Reading & LiteratureTags: books, memes & surveys
It’s a meme on books… how can I resist? Midge tagged me for this over at Facebook. My lists may change and vary in the course of time, because I tend to outgrow some books and develop preferences for new genres as I get older.
If you want to do this meme, post it on your site and send me a link via the comments section. Enjoy your books, everyone!
Five All-time Favorite Books
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
- Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
- Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
- Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes
Five Most-used Books (either manuals, cookbooks, study guides, etc.)
- Family Guide to Alternative Medicine
- Merriam-Webster Usage Dictionary
- Write More, Sell More. Bob Bly
- Writing Down the Bones, Natalie Goldberg
- The Right to Write, Julia Cameron
Completed Book Series
- Lord of the Rings trilogy (plus The Hobbit), J.R.R. Tolkien
- Space Trilogy, C.S. Lewis
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
(There could be more, but I can’t remember the titles at the moment!)
Five Most Recent Additions to the Library
- Rise and Shine, Anna Quindlen
- One True Thing, Anna Quindlen
- Your Attention, Please., Paul Brown & Alison Davis
- Children Learn What They Live, Dorothy Law Nolte
- Christmas with Paula Deen: Recipes and Stories from my Favorite Holiday, Paula Deen
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May 6th, 2009 Reading & Literature
loved the book. can’t wait to love the movie.
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January 6th, 2009 Reading & Literature
I’m currently reading Emma (ebook version) and A Woman Clothed with the Sun
Here’s my reading log in progress.
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December 8th, 2008 Reading & Literature
Maligayang Kapistahan ng Kalinis-linisang Paglilihi kay Maria (Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception)! I’m currently reading (and being touched by) this book:
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December 5th, 2008 Motherhood & Pregnancy, Reading & Literature
While leafing through an old fat li’l notebook:
The essentials of mothering are invisible. It’s hard to explain them in words. Practical tasks are only part of it. They do not account for that strength of feeling that goes with bringing up one’s own child. A mother can discover this suddenly when she has been looking after her baby all through a long day. In the evening, her husband comes home, and at last she can exchange news with another adult. He is the one person, the father of their child, whom she can expect to understand her. Perhaps he asks something generous like: “How’s your day been?”
- Naomi Stadlen, What Mothers Do Especially When It Looks Like Nothing
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