Meme: Poetry
Feb. 3rd, 2009 11:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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hobbitblue.
When you see this post, post a poem to your LJ. She chose one of my favorites (Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," a gorgeous villanelle), but here's another I quite like. YMMV.
"A Map of Love"
Donald Justice
Your face more than others' faces
Maps the half-remembered places
I have come to while I slept—
Continents a dream had kept
Secret from all waking folk
Till to your face I awoke,
And remembered then the shore,
And the dark interior.
Donald Justice links:
"Men at Forty" (another favorite poem)
Wikipedia entry
The Poetry Foundation
hobbitblue. When you see this post, post a poem to your LJ. She chose one of my favorites (Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," a gorgeous villanelle), but here's another I quite like. YMMV.
"A Map of Love"
Donald Justice
Your face more than others' faces
Maps the half-remembered places
I have come to while I slept—
Continents a dream had kept
Secret from all waking folk
Till to your face I awoke,
And remembered then the shore,
And the dark interior.
Donald Justice links:
"Men at Forty" (another favorite poem)
Wikipedia entry
The Poetry Foundation
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on 2009-02-03 06:17 pm (UTC)I do like the poem you posted quite a bit; I've not read the works of Donald Justice before.
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on 2009-02-03 06:50 pm (UTC)As I noted to Pers above, Donald Justice is just gorgeous; I highly recommend reading around in his work. There's a good volume (New and Selected Poems) that will give you a nice tour-n-taste.