Tuesday, February 7, 2012

some like poetry






Some--
that means not all.
Not even the majority of all but the minority.
Not counting the schools, where one must,
and the poets themselves, there will be perhaps two in a thousand.
Like--
but one also likes chicken noodle soup,
one likes compliments and the color blue, one likes an old scarf,
one likes to prove one's point,
one likes to pet a dog.
Poetry--
but what sort of thing is poetry?
More than one shaky answer
has been given to this question.
But I do not know and do not know and clutch on to it,
as to a saving bannister.





~ Wislawa Szymborska
with thanks to parabola

Original painting by
Caspar David Friedrich
Digital adaption by 
Simon Max Bannister 2012




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