Personal or Favorite

Righteous Jammer

Everyone post one of their most personal or favorite poems.. Here's mine:

Sad Bird

Simple is the sunshine.
Difficult is the moon.
Tragic are the waves,
taking you away.
Funny are the birds,
that sing your songs.
Sad is when,
they drift away...

EvilToasterElf

Memory- by William Mathews

We're not born knowing how to love the world,
but squalling. The first two years of our lives
crucially form out psyches, but we have
no memory of them. Well, a few shards

perhaps: a ladybug, the gray underside
of a bright leaf, a pixeled mother
murmuring from inside a screen door.
When all we have are fragments, they suffice.

On the debris of rock, on sand, we build
our church, the Little Chapel of the Dunes.
Soon enough it's harder to forget than
to keep track. How steadily the past fills

with what the present could or would not use.
Our silos teem with corn and avid rats.
How will we love the world? We can't forget
what we never knew; we'd better improvise.

"The farther we go, the more we give up,"
we could complain, but there's always more
to lose. The vacuum that dearth abhors
is dearth. We all drink from a leaking cup.

Ali

The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance...then everything becomes gradually connected."

(I wish I couldve met him besides somewhere in my dreams....)
-allison vigh