One-minute poetry

            "I robbed the Woods" by Emily Dickinson

I robbed the Woods—
The trusting Woods.
The unsuspecting Trees
Brought out their Burs and mosses
My fantasy to please.
I scanned their trinkets curious—I grasped—I bore away—
What will the solemn Hemlock—
What will the  Oak tree say?

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Leituras em dia

Emily Dickinson - "A Book"

There is no frigate like a book

To take us lands away,

Nor any coursers like a page

 Of prancing poetry.

This traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of toll;

How frugal is the chariot

That bears a human soul!

Edward Hopper, Compartment C, Car 293, 1938

Oil on canvas, 20 x 18 in.

IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York

Summer days, summer nights, summer stars

Quanto mais o tempo passa, mais aprecio as noites de Verão e o céu que as acompanha.

Costumo associar a poesia à imagem, mas hoje inclino-me para uma experiência mais englobante.

Apetece-me abrir os olhos, fechar os olhos e sentir o som da noite, na suave aragem que finalmente por aqui passa. Carl Sandburg e Emily Dickinson podem ter esse efeito.

To see the Summer Sky

Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie --

True Poems flee --

To see the Summer Sky

by Emily Dickinson

Encontrado aqui  

   

                                                                                                  

BEND low again, night of summer stars.

So near you are, sky of summer stars,

So near, a long arm man can pick off stars,

Pick off what he wants in the sky bowl,         

So near you are, summer stars,

So near, strumming, strumming,

So lazy and hum-strumming.

Summer Stars
by Carl Sandburg

                                                        Vincent van Gogh,

The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, 1888

Bobbi Humphrey, Blacks and Blues

A Deer in the City

"A Wounded Deer - leaps highest"

A Wounded Deer - leaps highest -

I've heard the Hunter tell -

'Tis but the Ecstasy of death -

And then the Brake is still!

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The Smitten Rock that gushes!

The trampled Steel that springs!

A Cheek is always redder

Just where the Hectic stings!

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Mirth is the Mail of Anguish

In which it Cautious Arm,

Lest anybody spy the blood

And "you're hurt" exclaim!

by Emily Dickinson

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Sometimes street art is just what it is: doodles and vandalism. And sometimes it's just there and it makes sense. This "deer" isn't famous and there isn't a leading graffiti artist behind it. Still, I expect the “deer turned tree” to leap over fences and gates. It looks so restraint and yet it conveys an inexplicable energy and force.
Delicate yet powerful. Fragile yet unstoppable.