Thursday, April 14, 2011

Poetry Challenge: Day 14

Today my mind was full of snippets of poetry, though, none of them coming together into one complete poem...But driving home this evening I noticed the way that the trees were so dark against the pale blue sky... a nice mental image so I scrawled out this poem on the drive.

Gloaming

In the gloaming
trees and houses are silhouetted
against the gray blue sky;
the last traces of sunset
fade into the horizon-
Soft hints of yellow disappear
behind the stately clouds
that slowly move across the sky.


And now a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, a Maine poet who grew up in Camden. I just love this poem and have it committed to heart. :)


 
Recuerdo

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. 
It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—
But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, 
We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; 
And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon. 

We were very tired, we were very merry—
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry; 
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear, 
From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere; 
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold, 
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold. 

We were very tired, we were very merry, 
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. 
We hailed "Good morrow, mother!" to a shawl-covered head, 
And bought a morning paper, which neither of us read; 
And she wept, "God bless you!" for the apples and pears, 
And we gave her all our money but our subway fares.


Recuerdo in Spanish means (loosely) a memory, a keepsake, memento. I never knew what it meant until recently, but now it really makes sense to me. 

~Maya 

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