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The Calm and the wild

Some thoughts on my poem before I leave to teach class this morning…

Both of the poems I’ve learned so far (“The Loon” by Mary Oliver and “The Hosting of the Sidhe” by W.B. Yeats) have had the relationship of humans and nature contained in them, if not their reason for being. Both poems take place “twixt night and day”. There is rapture in both poems. Continue reading

Hosting the Sidhe

I find myself feeling a little wistful about leaving my first poem behind for awhile. Individual lines come into my mind at random times and continue to reveal more things about themselves. I suppose that is like any relationship.

In picking my next poem, I decided to go with a visceral response and see where it takes me. Continue reading