current favorite poem
I have a love-hate relationship with poetry. I don't mind it- tolerated it in school, for the most part. But ever so often I find a poem that I absolutely adore, and that sticks with me. One of them is "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot, another "The Second Coming" by Yeats, and another is "The Climb" by Winfred Welles. My latest discovery is called "Litany in Which Things are Crossed Out" by Richard Siken.
Quotes from the poem:
"Every morning the same big
and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out
You will be alone always and then you will die."
"...and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.
Especially that, but I should have known.
You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together
to make a creature that will do what I say
or love me back."
I've read it so many times that I have a good portion of the beginning memorized. It's definitely a poem that's stuck with me.
Quotes from the poem:
"Every morning the same big
and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out
You will be alone always and then you will die."
"...and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.
Especially that, but I should have known.
You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together
to make a creature that will do what I say
or love me back."
I've read it so many times that I have a good portion of the beginning memorized. It's definitely a poem that's stuck with me.