tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3691587448774292610..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Stevie Smith: To Carry the ChildUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26919600790543227142012-06-24T09:56:24.597-07:002012-06-24T09:56:24.597-07:00touching...beautiful ...!!touching...beautiful ...!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76486136320808837782012-01-19T06:09:26.476-08:002012-01-19T06:09:26.476-08:00Vassilis,
That lovely little open-eyed moment of ...Vassilis,<br /><br />That lovely little open-eyed moment of awe before a snow flake may have been writ long ago, but I can feel it fluttering down and touching the tip of my nose... and dripping... so that I can taste it -- in this moment, now.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61363382202148760422012-01-19T06:05:19.865-08:002012-01-19T06:05:19.865-08:00Don,
Oh Jack's medicine cabinet fly -- the Am...Don,<br /><br />Oh Jack's medicine cabinet fly -- the American-instant answer to Proust's memory-fortune-cookie in a tea-saucer.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46570840863085224992012-01-18T13:19:29.328-08:002012-01-18T13:19:29.328-08:00What wonderful "proscribed" connections ...What wonderful "proscribed" connections - great Smith and a fine flashback to "The Fly" - oh, yes, it is just so amazing how many different contexts we may see these great works in - <br /><br />And, though the connection via Smith and Blake is lost, still I couldn't resist these, because it seems to me both Jack and Issa are thinking of humans:<br /><br />In my medicine cabinet,<br /> the winter fly<br />has died of old age.<br /><br />Jack Kerouac<br /><br />Don't kill that fly!<br />Look--it's wringing its hands,<br />wringing its feet.<br /><br /> Issa<br /><br />It is the compassion of both writers that touches deeply here.Issa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85610169064157537362012-01-18T13:10:33.011-08:002012-01-18T13:10:33.011-08:00child like
paper snow
flakes open
eyes wonder
...child like<br /><br />paper snow <br /><br />flakes open<br /><br />eyes wonder<br /><br /><br />(one written so many years ago)vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-90099187322636554542012-01-18T00:08:21.692-08:002012-01-18T00:08:21.692-08:00Artemisia,
Many thanks. Whenever a poem hears fro...Artemisia,<br /><br />Many thanks. Whenever a poem hears from you, I know it's doing something right.<br /><br /><br />Vassilis,<br /><br />That's a very useful point of contact. The lyric, with its deceptive simplicity, its way of drowning the personal in something "larger" -- may we call it the expression of a collective voice? -- has been shoved to the wayside in recent re-doings of poetic history and canon-re-formations. Perhaps it's the modesty, the ego-lessness, that bothers people. But yes, to sense in these two great poets an affinity of spirit (ah, another currently proscribed term!) helps us to better understand and appreciate both, and to deepen our experience of and meditation upon their great gifts.<br /><br />To be "child-like" and to be "wise", in the same moment -- surely this way of fathoming the unfathomable, accepting and embracing the mystery, is something rare, beyond method, shared across the span of a century by these two wonderful poets. <br /><br />How fortunate we are to have them to turn to. In -- dare I suggest -- a time which perhaps scarcely deserves the wonders they have to offer?<br /><br />So light, yet with an ability to lift us up, out of the weight of being human, that, one might wish to say, almost defies gravity.<br /><br />Miraculous is the word that springs to mind, in both cases. <br /><br /><a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/william-blake-fly.html" rel="nofollow">The Fly</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80235949683654251402012-01-17T23:04:38.735-08:002012-01-17T23:04:38.735-08:00Another super poem by Stevie. What it says puts on...Another super poem by Stevie. What it says puts one in the mind of Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience", does it not?vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-18641494610547789962012-01-17T15:32:29.922-08:002012-01-17T15:32:29.922-08:00Wondeful poem!
Thanks.Wondeful poem!<br />Thanks.Artemesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06120821017998835883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35665306695063802242012-01-17T14:19:14.863-08:002012-01-17T14:19:14.863-08:00Thanks Nin.
Yes, thinking about that picture for ...Thanks Nin.<br /><br />Yes, thinking about that picture for years now, it's always brought to mind Stevie's great poem. The child "carrying the child"... almost a speeded-up movie version of the entirety of life.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-65941466024780510192012-01-17T13:11:15.900-08:002012-01-17T13:11:15.900-08:00I love this! And that photo of the girl with the ...I love this! And that photo of the girl with the doll!<br />Brilliant.Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.com