Ballad
Understanding Wislawa Szymborska
Conversation with a stone
".. lake
that goes unnamed
and doesnt exist on this earth, just as the star
reflected in it is not in the sky." - Water
Fish to Fish
Inventor of Zero
"The boat from which he stepped into the world, into un-eternity" - Born
Census
The legend of Owl was a baker's daughter in Beheading
children of Vietnam
Thomas Mann
The Cave
Map Collected and Last poems of Wislawa Szymborska begins with her work from 1944. I am glad I stuck to the book. From Salt 1962 is when I started reading the book with fire. From then on, each poem had something to offer.
If the poet Wislawa Szymborska were a painter, her painting would be a montage that morphs from a hyperrealistic painting to a revelatory painting, retaining only the necessary objects.
Her poems deal with plain opposites - In 'To My Heart, On Sunday' - its the restlessly working heart on Sabbath rest day.
Her poems deal with movement - In 'The Acrobat' - movement in time (present and future) and space. Sometimes calculated like this and other times, its a huge push to future of
"Nothing - but after us,
who were here before
and ate our hearts
and drank our blood" - Cave poem
Her poems, zoom in on a single in a multitude in 'Snapshot of a Crowd'
Her poems use literary devices like alliteration, string of words
"Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,
the flame, the flamingo, he flounder, the feather-" - Birthday poem
Her poems usually a page and a half long arrive by the end of the page, the next half is a bonus. Unlike some poets, you dont have to wait
till the end.
poetry prompt
1. write an Inverted poem
2. write a Soliloquy
3. I prefer earth in civvies. Write a 'I prefer' poem.
4. I am Tarsier. Write from a different point of view.
5. To my heart on Sunday. Heart works endlessly even on Sabbath rest day. Any such opposites strike you?
6. The Acrobat places the performer in time and space, weaves through it as he moves. Are you amazed by any movement?
7. Snapshot of a Crowd. Multitude to a single. Can you zoom in on a tree in a forest, grain in sand?
8. Dinosaur Skeleton. Addressing in many different ways, mocking the addressed.
9. Pi
Understanding Wislawa Szymborska
Conversation with a stone
".. lake
that goes unnamed
and doesnt exist on this earth, just as the star
reflected in it is not in the sky." - Water
Fish to Fish
Inventor of Zero
"The boat from which he stepped into the world, into un-eternity" - Born
Census
The legend of Owl was a baker's daughter in Beheading
children of Vietnam
Thomas Mann
The Cave
Map Collected and Last poems of Wislawa Szymborska begins with her work from 1944. I am glad I stuck to the book. From Salt 1962 is when I started reading the book with fire. From then on, each poem had something to offer.
If the poet Wislawa Szymborska were a painter, her painting would be a montage that morphs from a hyperrealistic painting to a revelatory painting, retaining only the necessary objects.
Her poems deal with plain opposites - In 'To My Heart, On Sunday' - its the restlessly working heart on Sabbath rest day.
Her poems deal with movement - In 'The Acrobat' - movement in time (present and future) and space. Sometimes calculated like this and other times, its a huge push to future of
"Nothing - but after us,
who were here before
and ate our hearts
and drank our blood" - Cave poem
Her poems, zoom in on a single in a multitude in 'Snapshot of a Crowd'
Her poems use literary devices like alliteration, string of words
"Moraines and morays and morasses and mussels,
the flame, the flamingo, he flounder, the feather-" - Birthday poem
Her poems usually a page and a half long arrive by the end of the page, the next half is a bonus. Unlike some poets, you dont have to wait
till the end.
poetry prompt
1. write an Inverted poem
2. write a Soliloquy
3. I prefer earth in civvies. Write a 'I prefer' poem.
4. I am Tarsier. Write from a different point of view.
5. To my heart on Sunday. Heart works endlessly even on Sabbath rest day. Any such opposites strike you?
6. The Acrobat places the performer in time and space, weaves through it as he moves. Are you amazed by any movement?
7. Snapshot of a Crowd. Multitude to a single. Can you zoom in on a tree in a forest, grain in sand?
8. Dinosaur Skeleton. Addressing in many different ways, mocking the addressed.
9. Pi
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