The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 8/5/07

[BlueIris]

"Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition"

So these are the Himalayas.
Mountains racing to the moon.
The moment of their start recorded
on the startling, ripped canvas of the sky.
Holes punched in a desert of clouds.
Thrust into nothing.
Echo—a white mute.
Quiet.

Yeti, down there we've got Wednesday,
bread and alphabets.
Two times two is four.
Roses are red there,
and violets are blue.

Yeti, crime is not all
we're up to down there.
Yeti, not every sentence there
means death.

We've inherited hope—
the gift of forgetting.
You'll see how we give
birth among the ruins.

Yeti, we've got Shakespeare there.
Yeti, we play solitaire
and violin. At nightfall,
we turn lights on, Yeti.

Up here it's neither moon nor earth.
Tears freeze.
Oh Yeti, semi-moonman,
turn back, think again!

I called this to the Yeti
inside four walls of avalanche,
stomping my feet for warmth
on the everlasting
snow.

—Wislawa Szymborska
(Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh)

[BlueIris]

1. Kick.

[BlueIris]

2. Kick.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear BlueIris...

Very nice!

I like the images...

And all the crazy nonsequitors too...

Thank you...:hug:

[BlueIris]

4. Kick.

[BlueIris]

5. Wislawa Szymborska is one of my favorite poets of all time.

I'm so sad that for whatever reason, this didn't resonate with any of you, because I think it's one of her best pieces.

Szymborska, a Polish poet, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1996.

ETA: I...misspelled her name in the OP. That was my very bad. The only solution will be for me to post lots more of her poems with her name spelled correctly.

[BlueIris]

6. I'm very sad that nobody liked this.

:cry:

[Dragonbreathp9d]

7. I've a request!

Charles Burkoski please :)

[BlueIris]

8. Will do.

It might take me a couple of days, though. There's kind of an order in which I'm posting these poems.