Poetry
Yufa and
Poetry
Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean-- the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down -- who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her
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Film, Music & Poetry
MargaretC • 4 cards
In unpredictable times, poetry leaves the safe, familiar ways of knowing and speaking and listens out into new forms of being and creating. It searches for new insights between the known, it fathoms the space between people, between us and the living world, between different ways of seeing and shaping the world. It listens for new ways of being... See more
Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge
Poetry is the art of proving that a few words
are worth more than a thousand pictures.
are worth more than a thousand pictures.
Clintavo on Substack
HYMN by Edgar Allan Poe
To speak about and in this space in-between we also need a new language that can hold the nuance, complexity, openness and connectedness that this space requires to come to its own potential. That’s why I think a poetic language, a poetization of our language and being is so important today. Poetry is intimately familiar with the in-between space,... See more
Mike Kauschke • The Poetic Art of Living in a Time Between Worlds - Emerge
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been yours / completely. | Ninth Elegy, Rilke: https://poetrysociety.org/poems/ninth-elegy
SOMETIMES
by David Whyte
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest,
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories,
who could cross
a shimmering bed of leaves
without a sound,... See more