Personal notes: A lot is said. Sometimes the poem says it’s better. I hope I can tell you this too.
“Sadness everywhere. Massacre everywhere. In the case of babies
I’m not starving somewhere, I’m starving
Somewhere else. There are flies in the nostrils.
But that’s what God wants.
Otherwise, it’s not the morning before summer dawn
It makes me feel very energetic. Bengali tigers did not do that
It should be very miraculously well made. Poor woman
We laugh together in the fountain
The pain and fear they know
Someone smiles and laughs in their future
I’m very sick in the village. There’s laughter
Every day on the terrible streets of Calcutta
And the woman laughs in her Bombay cage.
If we deny happiness, resist our satisfaction,
We reduce the importance of their deprivation.
We must put joy at risk. We can do it without joy,
But it’s not a joy. It’s not fun. We need to have
The stubbornness to accept the joy of ruthless people
The furnace of this world. To make injustice unique
Our measure of attention is to praise the devil.
If the Lord’s locomotive defeated us,
You need to be grateful that the end is big.
We must admit that despite everything there is music.
We are standing on the bow of a small ship again
It was fixed late at night at a small harbor.
Seeing the sleeping island: Waterfront
Three shutter cafes and one burning of naked light.
To hear the faint sound of oars in silence as a row ship
It’s really worth it to come out slowly and then go back.
All years of sadness going forward. ”
– Jack Gilbert, “Easy for Defense”
“Even stones would scream.” – After 7:40pm Luke.
Jack Gilbert He is a highly regarded American poet known for his direct and unadorned style, and often explored themes of love, loss and everyday beauty. “Easy for defense” is from Rejecting heaven (2005) won the National Book Critics Circle Award. His previous book of poems, Monolithoswon the Stanley Knitz Award and the American Poetry Review Award.
Please refer aflame: Learn from silence – Pico Ire (Just released). “Optimism is just as useful as the realism it is based on.”
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