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rubah"A Blessing," by James Wright, from Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press).
A Blessing
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their
happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the
darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.
This, my friends, is the only poem in the world that has my approval at the current time.
There are those of you who know of my distaste for things with such meter and rhyme, and there are those of you who still unwitting try to share your poetry with me.
I sorta wanted to TPCASTT it, but I've done that already. So I'll wait until tomorrow/friday and try to see if my copy of that is still in my folder at school. I hope so. If it's at home it's probably lost. And I remember loving the job I did on it.
title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title, theme.
But yes. This should be the only poem in the world. The rest is just emostuff. Or songs that need music.
That being said-- I got a start on my essay today. Two whole paragraphs. They took up the entire first page of paper. And I write small :( I have it sorta outlined what I'll write next, I just need to SIT DOWN AND DO IT.
Band was sorta weird today xD Mr. Ray made up a fake drillsheet and we marched it a few times. I have never *Needed* to read a drill sheet before, nor have I marched in anything but straight lines, but I think I did a fairly okay job. Forgot to guide right though ;)
Took pictures to school and Megan was all 'OMG I can't believe you have that picture in there, don't show ANYONE' just like I thought she'd be xD I forgot the four Pet ones though, and they're my favorites:O
Dani's birthday party is on the 27th. Need to decide if I'm going to go/find out if other people are. She was my friend in kindergarten, then she changed schools sometime afterwards, then I saw her at band camp and it was 'YES! Someone I KNOW!'. Now she's going to school at Pottsville again. I'm not entirely sure why she quit going to Russellville. Rumors say all sorts of things, but I doubt they have much behind them. But she's short, self-diagnosedly fat, and red headed (although she says it's more brown now and she just dyes it xD)
She is, as we call it here in the South, a "Pistol".
Which means that she turns most people off from her, except a small circle of mostly now-sophomores, and of course, the people that don't want to be mean to her ever:O Like myselfxD
But yeah. I didn't go to her birthday last year:O I probably won't this year either.
Anyways, its been raining since saturday. It's definitely a change from 100+ degrees every day, although when the sun comes out from NINE AM TO NOON it's a bit miserable with the humidity.
I swear. Every single day it's been sunny from nine to noon. And THEN it gets cloudy. It was friggin' hot by the time we stopped marching today, and around 3PM it started RAINING again.
Maybe the field will get so soggy we can't march on it >:D
Hee^_^ I played ff8 from like 11:30 to 5:00 today, from the bottom of the D-District Prison to Fisherman's Horizon. It was awesome. I actually did a lot of it on my own intuition+memories of the last two games instead of relying on the wonderful printed material I have gathered through the ages. And somehow, I gained two SeeD levels in there somewhere:O Because I was at 24 and became 26 when I got payed while getting rid of the Garden Masters.
and I'm sleepy. RAWR.
A Blessing
Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth on the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their
happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the
darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.
This, my friends, is the only poem in the world that has my approval at the current time.
There are those of you who know of my distaste for things with such meter and rhyme, and there are those of you who still unwitting try to share your poetry with me.
I sorta wanted to TPCASTT it, but I've done that already. So I'll wait until tomorrow/friday and try to see if my copy of that is still in my folder at school. I hope so. If it's at home it's probably lost. And I remember loving the job I did on it.
title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title, theme.
But yes. This should be the only poem in the world. The rest is just emostuff. Or songs that need music.
That being said-- I got a start on my essay today. Two whole paragraphs. They took up the entire first page of paper. And I write small :( I have it sorta outlined what I'll write next, I just need to SIT DOWN AND DO IT.
Band was sorta weird today xD Mr. Ray made up a fake drillsheet and we marched it a few times. I have never *Needed* to read a drill sheet before, nor have I marched in anything but straight lines, but I think I did a fairly okay job. Forgot to guide right though ;)
Took pictures to school and Megan was all 'OMG I can't believe you have that picture in there, don't show ANYONE' just like I thought she'd be xD I forgot the four Pet ones though, and they're my favorites:O
Dani's birthday party is on the 27th. Need to decide if I'm going to go/find out if other people are. She was my friend in kindergarten, then she changed schools sometime afterwards, then I saw her at band camp and it was 'YES! Someone I KNOW!'. Now she's going to school at Pottsville again. I'm not entirely sure why she quit going to Russellville. Rumors say all sorts of things, but I doubt they have much behind them. But she's short, self-diagnosedly fat, and red headed (although she says it's more brown now and she just dyes it xD)
She is, as we call it here in the South, a "Pistol".
Which means that she turns most people off from her, except a small circle of mostly now-sophomores, and of course, the people that don't want to be mean to her ever:O Like myselfxD
But yeah. I didn't go to her birthday last year:O I probably won't this year either.
Anyways, its been raining since saturday. It's definitely a change from 100+ degrees every day, although when the sun comes out from NINE AM TO NOON it's a bit miserable with the humidity.
I swear. Every single day it's been sunny from nine to noon. And THEN it gets cloudy. It was friggin' hot by the time we stopped marching today, and around 3PM it started RAINING again.
Maybe the field will get so soggy we can't march on it >:D
Hee^_^ I played ff8 from like 11:30 to 5:00 today, from the bottom of the D-District Prison to Fisherman's Horizon. It was awesome. I actually did a lot of it on my own intuition+memories of the last two games instead of relying on the wonderful printed material I have gathered through the ages. And somehow, I gained two SeeD levels in there somewhere:O Because I was at 24 and became 26 when I got payed while getting rid of the Garden Masters.
and I'm sleepy. RAWR.
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Date: 2005-08-17 08:46 am (UTC)...BUT IS IT? <3