Alhambra
Algebra
Ali Baba
Arabian Nights
Scheherezade
Maple Leave
Hojas
descascara
Canada
Castillo
Samuel Hunt
Heredia
Prov.10:3
"The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked."
Rom.8:28
"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
A poem should be equal to:
...
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf
Puerto Viejo, Jessy Gonzalez
Chess: "Arabian Nights" "Algebra" "Ali Baba" "Alhambra" "Maple Leave" "Hojas" "Canada" "Castillo" "Samuel Hunt" "Heredia" "descascara" "Scheherezade"
-- Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica -- Archibald MacLeish
Ars Poetica
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globed fruit
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown -
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind -
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs
A poem should be equal to:
Not true
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf
For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -
A poem should not mean
But be
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