Morning Forest Poem

[WhiteTara]

Last edited Wed Oct 31, 2018, 12:00 PM - Edit history (1)

I walked in the woods.
The Forest
Was combing her hair.
Leaves fluttered down.

[applegrove]

1. Combing?

[Corvo Bianco]

2. Haha

Perfect.

[WhiteTara]

3. it's called poetry

and poetic allusion. What confused you?

[applegrove]

4. I ended my poetry studies in grade school.

[WhiteTara]

5. I hope poetry never leaves me as long as I live

I can't imagine a world without poetry.

[applegrove]

6. I'd love to have your eyes. I just don't.

[WhiteTara]

7. We all have our "things" that we enjoy

You have your eyes and that is enough.

I was just watching the wind blowing the leaves from the trees and it made me think of the Great Goddess combing her hair of tangles and knots. Nothing practical in that at all.

[applegrove]

8. Beautiful. Reminds me of Mary Oliver. I found her when I was looking for

something for my mom's funeral. At first when i read it i thought it was too dark. My mother was not a dark person. Then, after my mom's last weeks i got how gloom and doom is all a part of life and death. See I do get poetry.. after a bit.

Sleeping In The Forest

I thought the earth remembered me, she 
took me back so tenderly, arranging 
her dark skirts, her pockets 
full of lichens and seeds. I slept 
as never before, a stone 
on the riverbed, nothing 
between me and the white fire of the stars 
but my thoughts, and they floated 
light as moths among the branches 
of the perfect trees. All night 
I heard the small kingdoms breathing 
around me, the insects, and the birds
who do their work in the darkness. All night 
I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling 
with a luminous doom. By morning 
I had vanished at least a dozen times 
into something better.

- Mary Oliver

[WhiteTara]

9. Wow. That is beautifully powerful.

I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.

That is a profound way of saying "I was scared to death and each time I realized I had be delusional and was better for my realization and now less afraid" or at least that's what I got from it.

[applegrove]

10. My mother was a nature person. That is what attracted me to the poem.

She was a very literal person too. She was from a valley that had been farmed for 200 years. Grew up on a farm. Loved the forest. It was poetic to turn her back to the earth. She was sick for a long time. That poem helped. And when she died we gave the plot of forest she still owned in that valley to the local Presbyterian church there.

[WhiteTara]

13. okay, now I know you were alluding

to spelling, not poetry. You need to be frank with me, I'll be earnest!

[applegrove]

14. I thought you meant to leave out the b. That is was some poetry ninja thing. Not

Just playing with words but playing with spelling. Ha!

[WhiteTara]

15. lol. No, I'm not that clever

[applegrove]

16. It is a great poem.

[Donkees]

11. The 'b' is missing. ''Was coming her hair''

[WhiteTara]

12. Thank you.

I didn't see the missing letter. That's how it works. We see others mistakes and rarely our own.