A Poem For Today - Concurrence

[Ken Dickinson]

Concurrence

Each day's terror, almost
a form of boredom-- madmen
at the wheel and
stepping on the gas and
the brakes no good --
and each day one,
sometimes two, morning-glories,
faultless, blue, blue sometimes
flecked with magenta, each
lit from within with
the first sunlight.

- Denise Levertov

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[Rafael Edwards]

a good synthesis of the reality so many people experience everyday

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[johnja...@gmail.com]

Makes me think of this companion poem by Rumi:

Today like every other day

We wake up empty and scared

Don't open the door of your study

And begin reading.

Take down a musical instrument

let the beauty we love be what we do

There are hundreds of way to kneel

And kiss the earth.

Blessings.

                                                                                                  

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[Kurt Heyl]

Thanks Ken and Jai,

NYC is full of those impatient drivers

and the glowing colors of fall trees 

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From: johnja...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 07:55:59 -0700
Subject: Re: A Poem For Today - Concurrence
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[Lauren de Boer]

Thanks, Ken -

Last year, I wrote a poem in response to this poem of Denise Levertov’s…

Here it is:

MISBEHAVIOR

— for Denise Levertov

A morning glory opens its face
of blue fringed with white.
This might be thought of as a behavior,
inspired by the sun.
If so, the mob of morning
glories that overtook
my beans and squash
late last summer
behaved badly.
O, this valiant tropism of life!
O, these stunning miscreants trampling plans!
Spreading their blues and magentas
In spite of the best efforts of madmen.

— Lauren de Boer
2/12/13

[johnja...@gmail.com]

That's a beaut, Lauren, thank you!

What great images...."mob of morning glories....beans and squash behaving badly....stunning miscreants.....best efforts of madmen".

And one doesn't hear many more noble-sounding oaths than "O, this valiant tropism of life!"

Please continue to misbehave in this manner.

Jai

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Lauren de Boer <kla...@terravitabooks.net> wrote:

Thanks, Ken -

Last year, I wrote a poem in response to this poem of Denise Levertov's...

Here it is:

MISBEHAVIOR

-- for Denise Levertov

A morning glory opens its face
of blue fringed with white.
This might be thought of as a behavior,
        inspired by the sun.
If so, the mob of morning
glories that overtook
my beans and squash
late last summer
behaved badly.
O, this valiant tropism of life!
O, these stunning miscreants trampling plans!
Spreading their blues and magentas
In spite of the best efforts of madmen.

-- Lauren de Boer
2/12/13

[Trudi Richards]

i love this one...

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my soul enmeshed in cataracts of time"
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[Karen Rohn]

Lauren...wonderful, wonderful

Karen