tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post8927178552140579437..comments2024-03-25T02:43:49.115-05:00Comments on Karen Edmisten: Poetry Friday: I'm Sorry, Atticus, I Just Can't Do ItKaren Edmisten http://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-14541000427620817462012-07-01T18:21:06.503-05:002012-07-01T18:21:06.503-05:00Tanita, we aren't deep, just verbose.
Marjori...Tanita, we aren't deep, just verbose. <br />Marjorie, thank you! <br />Julie -- yes. :) <br />Melanie, come to Nebraska soonest. <br />Lissa, no worries ... rambling is what I do best.Karen Edmisten https://www.blogger.com/profile/04446214835142625161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-32171873336744928992012-06-29T22:25:35.299-05:002012-06-29T22:25:35.299-05:00I remember thinking in my early twenties, when I h...I remember thinking in my early twenties, when I had a mad crush on Keats because of his letters, that he was preternaturally wise for his years with that "no irritable reaching after fact" business...but somewhere in my thirties I decided he was, um, thinking like a guy in his early twenties. :) Now I simply think he's adorable. And I go on reaching after reason, though seldom irritably.<br /><br />Ramble on, my dear; you always find a trail I'm eager to follow.Lissahttp://melissawiley.com/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-85340169349911651942012-06-29T21:01:02.060-05:002012-06-29T21:01:02.060-05:00I'm rather glad you didn't just post some ...I'm rather glad you didn't just post some Keats. I think I'm too tired for Wallace Stevens; but I did love the Kooser, those pickup trucks settling back to watch the clouds.... I suddenly want to go to Nebraska....Melanie Bettinellihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12557248434888642114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-21047343003560868662012-06-29T20:22:06.369-05:002012-06-29T20:22:06.369-05:00When William Hurt says "Let art flow over you...When William Hurt says "Let art flow over you," maybe he (and Atticus?) mean "flow" not like Burns's "Flow gently, sweet Afton" but more like this: <br />http://leandra20.deviantart.com/art/Swiftly-flowing-river-86404389<br />No one could even stand up in that river! And sometimes, gloriously, you can't stand up in Wallace Stevens' poetry either. You just close your eyes, turn off your mind, and go with "the flow."Julie https://www.blogger.com/profile/12811523890920763782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-28342422528952044532012-06-29T16:44:37.384-05:002012-06-29T16:44:37.384-05:00:-) I love your 'ramblings'!:-) I love your 'ramblings'!Marjoriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12143499864104883745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17019672.post-41280358328909479252012-06-29T13:09:51.658-05:002012-06-29T13:09:51.658-05:00*falls over giggling*
I can't do it, either, ...*falls over giggling*<br /><br />I can't do it, either, if that helps you. I am certainly not as deep as you (or as Atticus - gee, "groping after some epistemological objective"??? Really?!), but I find that I rarely can just post a poem and let it be.<br /><br />Hm. Will have to work up toward that. Or else, find some more Keats...tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.com