Poems that remind me of The Doctor

[sensiblecat]

Is there anyone else out there who thinks that a poetry anthology illustrated with DW screen caps would be absolutely awesome? What would you put in it?

Here are a few ideas from me, based mainly on Day of the Doctor:

Comments

[tardis_stowaway]

I would love to see such an anthology! I very much like your selections, particularly the last two.

I would put in "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver, chiefly for this section, which for me is rich with the Doctor's grief concerning the Time War and his challenge of caring so deeply about fleeting mortal lives:

Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

[sensiblecat]

Oh yes, that is perfect.

[ext_6460452]

it's been nearly a decade since you've written this post and I'm really glad I managed to discover it. the poems you've chosen are perfect and i can't help but think of the doctor as i read them!