Today's poem:
Black Earth
- by Marianne Moore
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/727163579113095168/black-earth?source=share
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A Jelly-Fish
Visible, invisible,
a fluctuating charm
an amber-tinctured amethyst
inhabits it, your arm
approaches and it opens
and it closes; you had meant
to catch it and it quivers;
you abandon your intent.
--Marianne Moore
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(Art credit: Susanne Herrmann)
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@richardr I'll have to look for the Hollenberg book - Gillian Hanscombe & Virginia Smyers' work "Writing for their Lives" (1987) did a good job of highlighting the interconnectedness of H.D., Marianne Moore, Djuna Barnes, Amy Lowell, Mina Loy, Sylvia Beach, etc. But their lives definitely could be adapted onto film of some sort (plenty of DRAMA!)
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O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven - of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible
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This is a strange fraternity ... the lion standing up against this screen of woven air which is the forest: the unicorn also, on its hind legs in reciprocity
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Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads
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O to be a dragon,
a symbol of the power of Heaven - of silkworm
size or immense; at times invisible
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Love, ah Love, when your slipknot's drawn, One can but say, "Farewell, good sense"
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