metonomia: (Pendragons)
2011-04-07 12:12 am

meh

In tune with my general feeling right now, I present today's (well, April 6, so technically yesterday's) poem:

Futility

Move him into the sun -
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.

Think how it wakes the seeds, -
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,
Full-nerved, - still warm, - too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
- O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?

--Wilfred Owen

metonomia: (a great big world)
2011-04-05 04:13 pm

Unas Cosas Pequeñitas

Primus! I have something like 14 DW invite codes chillin' over here with me, and they would loooove to find homes, so if you are fleeing internet warfare, or just want a DW backup journal, let me know, because otherwise I'm just going to throw them all up on dw_sharing soon.

Tam, carminis diēī habeō:
(I am intrigued that English spellcheck wants the final word to be 'have.' I applaud your translation skillz, internet, but really, I want the Latin)

admit there is something else you cannot name )

metonomia: (into the utter east)
2011-04-01 06:55 pm

Happy National Poetry Month!

To start off this most wondrous of months, I have some Denise Levertov.  One of our priests used an excerpt from her "Sun, Moon, and Stones" in a homily recently, and I loved it:

And we were born to that sole end:
   to thirst and to grow
   to shudder
   to dream in lingering dew, lingering warmth,
   to stumble searching.

But O the fountains,
   where shall we find them?


And then have another of her poems, "To the Reader":

To the Reader

As you read, a white bear leisurely
pees, dyeing the snow
saffron,

and as you read, many gods
lie among lianas: eyes of obsidian
are watching the generations of leaves,

and as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages,
turning
its dark pages.