"Atlantis- A Lost Sonnet" by Eavan Boland
Someone is doing a "post your favorite poem" meme, so I thought I'd join in.
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How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city-arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals-had all
one fine day gone under?
I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city-
white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is
this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to convey that what is gone is gone forever and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of
where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
and drowned it.
- "Atlantis- A Lost Sonnet" by Eavan Boland
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How on earth did it happen, I used to wonder
that a whole city-arches, pillars, colonnades,
not to mention vehicles and animals-had all
one fine day gone under?
I mean, I said to myself, the world was small then.
Surely a great city must have been missed?
I miss our old city-
white pepper, white pudding, you and I meeting
under fanlights and low skies to go home in it. Maybe
what really happened is
this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word
to convey that what is gone is gone forever and
never found it. And so, in the best traditions of
where we come from, they gave their sorrow a name
and drowned it.
- "Atlantis- A Lost Sonnet" by Eavan Boland