Knowledge is of sorrow, boredom, ecstasy, the weather,
-watching the storm clouds approach like ideas
that never quite arrive or spill their contents.
We look as if to see what is really going on,
we see light on the other side of the window,
mint green through trees,
blood red across clouds,
golden strands skimming fields.
What we know gathers like clouds,
is the fading light in a casting sky.
Clouds and Light
07 Thursday May 2020
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But we still chase after it. I often wonder why. This is a deep, introspective poem that’s ripe with imagery. I enjoyed reading it.
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Thanks Nitin, I wrote this after reading some of George Oppen’s imagist poetry. I don’t know why we chase it but it seems we are wired to do so, I know I can’t help myself. The fact that we do it and the reasons why make for a lot of poetry.
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I can’t help myself either. There are times when it only makes me feel empty and I wonder what the point is, but I go back to reading after a while. I agree that it helps shape the poetry we write though.
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I only write when I read. Sometimes I stop reading so I can take a break from writing. I think it may be pointless but it is often beautifully and poignantly so.
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