Crazy, wonderful, anxiety (& Moon-Ravens)
I'm just going to ignore the enormous gap since I last posted (sorry about that)
I've been reading some Ted Hughes poetry recently, specifically Moon-Bells and other poems which are apparently part of the "Chatto Poets for the Young" series but they're quite full of death and hope and strangeness so I think more YA than kidlit.
This one has stuck with me in particular so I thought sharing it would be as good a comeback as any.
Moon-Ravens
Are silver white
Like the moonlight
And their croak, their bark
Is not dark
And ominous,
But luminous
And a sweet chime
Always announcing time
For good news to come
If there is some,
And if there isn't
Then there's moon-present-
That is, a stillness,
And if you have any illness
It flits out of your mouth
In the shape of a black moth
Which the moon-raven the follows
And swallows.
My news? Still working at a completely crazy, utterly wonderful, unbelievably anxiety inducing job. Failing to get to the theatre much which is a great sadness to me but I had a wonderful 10 days in Dublin for WorldCon and then in Donegal with B so hopefully that will set me up with sanity & calm to refer back to for a little bit.
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I've been reading some Ted Hughes poetry recently, specifically Moon-Bells and other poems which are apparently part of the "Chatto Poets for the Young" series but they're quite full of death and hope and strangeness so I think more YA than kidlit.
This one has stuck with me in particular so I thought sharing it would be as good a comeback as any.
Moon-Ravens
Are silver white
Like the moonlight
And their croak, their bark
Is not dark
And ominous,
But luminous
And a sweet chime
Always announcing time
For good news to come
If there is some,
And if there isn't
Then there's moon-present-
That is, a stillness,
And if you have any illness
It flits out of your mouth
In the shape of a black moth
Which the moon-raven the follows
And swallows.
My news? Still working at a completely crazy, utterly wonderful, unbelievably anxiety inducing job. Failing to get to the theatre much which is a great sadness to me but I had a wonderful 10 days in Dublin for WorldCon and then in Donegal with B so hopefully that will set me up with sanity & calm to refer back to for a little bit.
This entry was originally posted at https://morganmuffle.dreamwidth.org/1414881.html. Please comment there using OpenID.