Poetry, April 12

[jade_sabre]

I searched far and wide for an Easter poem, and really none of them are doing justice to what I want to say today--other than the Exultet, but that's Vigil, not Sunday morn--Willow's suggestion fits rather well with the homily from Mass this morning, but I know and I believe and I felt the empty tomb, so that's not really the sentiment I'm looking to express. I love the last line of this poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins, but while Lent was hard this year, and while I was filled with joy, it's still just not quite...joyful enough. Even Emily Dickinson talks of being overwhelmed and extinguished, but I don't feel extinguished; I feel fulfilled.

And so I decided to find a poem about joy, and I found this one, which can be read on a secular and a theophilial level, and really meets me, the sentiment that I have that I want to share with all of you. So today, from Sara Teasdale:


Joy
I am wild, I will sing to the trees,
I will sing to the stars in the sky,
I love, I am loved, he is mine,
Now at last I can die!

I am sandaled with wind and with flame,
I have heart-fire and singing to give,
I can tread on the grass or the stars,
Now at last I can live!

Comments

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

Sara Teasdale always makes me think of the "There will come soft rains" chapter of The Martian Chronicles, it features a Teasdale poem of the same name.

My own pet poem of joy is this one

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

checkers where were you when I was trying to pick an Easter poem? that one is perfect.

LUCKILY TOMORROW IS EASTER MONDAY and that contains the word "Easter" donc je peux l'utiliser, merci beaucoup!

also I didn't realize that chapter was not a separate short story, because I definitely read it as such (i.e. was assigned to read "There will come soft rains" without knowing that it was part of a larger thingie).

happy Easter!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Happy, happy Easter, jadie!

Until just now I never thought of it as an Easter poem, but it IS, isn't it?

I think Ray Bradbury wrote some short stories and then included them with some new stuff when he put the Martian Chronicles together. Love that book.

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

:-D :-D :-D

so much! so much. ♥

*puts on list*

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

This is great.