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A NOTE ON THE MEANING OF WORDS:
It’s in the unexpected juxtaposition, the non-rhymes, that poetry is powerful. The words that stop being what they are and become deformed, a contradiction to their meanings, break through the perceived, the expected, and reveal new emotions, allowing the reader to participate in the experience of discovery that which the poet made when he/she first put pen to paper, first felt the word. When a word no longer serves its previous purpose but rather exists as a substitute for something that would otherwise have no shape, it transcends into infinite meaning.
I found this poem written in an old poetry book. It's something I wrote down beneath a poem by Merwin while in college. He wrote, "How can you be sure that what you write is really any good/ you can't you can never be sure/ you die without knowing/ whether anything you wrote was any good/ if you have to be sure don't write." I thought posting my small poetic response (as though I had entered into the conversation with a dead poet) might be fun; a discussion about passion, a rebirth of what I once loved, a revival of my former self.
Passion keeps, you
hidden, you will choose
and bob in float as flat
unflinching calm;
the wild will win, you
will loose
half without.
SUNDAY MORNING BY WALLACE STEVENS
She dreams a little, and she feels the dark
Encroachment of that old castastrophe,
As a calm darkens among water-lights,
The pungent oranges and bright, green wings,
Seem things in some procession of the dead,
Winding across wide water, without sound,
Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet
Over the seas, to silence.
Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow,
grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued
Elations when the forest blooms, gusty
emotions on wet roads on autumn nights
all pleasures and all pains, remembering
the bough of summer and the winter branch.
These are the measures destined for her soul.
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances."
