1651: Valentine for Ernest Mann | Naomi Shihab Nye

[exceptindreams]

"Valentine for Ernest Mann

Comments

[katie_g_lynn]

Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us
we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock
in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quite.
And let me know.

This is really speaking to me today.

[onestringed]

same for me :)

[synergyisalie]

Me too

[flashfly]

This:

poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,
they are sleeping. They are the shadows
drifting across our ceilings the moment
before we wake up.

[secretsolitaire]

Exactly what I was going to quote! ♥

[flashfly]

♥

[med_cat]

Thank you for this; reminded me of Macleish's "Ars Poetica" and a few other poems about the craft of poetry, including Marianne Moore's. You'd read them before? :)

[exceptindreams]

I actually haven't. It's strange, you mention Marianne Moore, a poet I've never heard of before, and then I go to an art gallery with an exhibit on American poets and there she is! A photo and a verse on poetry too! So any suggestions?