Friday, May 12, 2006
Here’s a poem from our old friend Lucien Zell, it’s from his latest collection Bright Secrets and is entitled Human-Centric.
Human-Centric
We are appalling human-centric:
The birds don’t know a thing about
Our Shakespears, our Rimbauds
But don’t suppose them ignorant!
We don’t know the poetry they do!
The poetry of flight…..
Of landing on a bridge in a city
And then floating into a park and then on and on
Into the wilderness to wake at dawn and soar up
Into a perfect view of every sunrise,
Every sunset.
Why care about beautiful words
When you can have their meanings without them?
Human-Centric
We are appalling human-centric:
The birds don’t know a thing about
Our Shakespears, our Rimbauds
But don’t suppose them ignorant!
We don’t know the poetry they do!
The poetry of flight…..
Of landing on a bridge in a city
And then floating into a park and then on and on
Into the wilderness to wake at dawn and soar up
Into a perfect view of every sunrise,
Every sunset.
Why care about beautiful words
When you can have their meanings without them?
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