Too Slow. New Year’s Day, I was driving home & stopped by the police. I was going too slow. Asked why, I say, I was listening to a poem on the radio. Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert, it was worth slowing down for.
Tag: poem
The Next War
It will take place,
it will take time
it will take life,
and waste them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
From
Pome Newsletter by Matthew Ogle
A jewel in your head? Toad, you've put one in mine, a tiny radiance in a dark place.
Via Pome by Matthew Ogle on tinyletter. I am very fond of toads. Easily found online.
#tdc3186 #ds106 my Milestone poem is For the Children by Gary Snyder
stay together
learn the flowers
go light
I have been working for years. on a four-line poem. about the life of a leaf; I think it might come out right this winter
Cutout wild geese cross,
the clear, deep, gradient sky;
commuting through dawn.