the burden - edwin morgan
The Burden
Whatever is a burden, let it go.
To tug and tie is futile, let it go.
Like Christian at the river, let it go.
Not that you'll muster the winds, not that.
No one is unmelting trophies, not that.
It's not a one-off trebuchet, not that.
But oh you want to raise the dagged and drear ones.
You want to cut a clearing for the dear ones.
You want to hold and prop and urge the near ones.
Free as air and strong as iron, you'd do it.
Groans, guilts, bent backs, stubbed toes will never do it.
You know what you most loose and lose, so do it.
So do it and take the heart, the roads are long.
Stride straight until the clean shadows are long.
Sleep an unburdened sleep when nights are long.
-Edwin Morgan
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Very recently, I came across this website. It's absolutely delightful. :)
http://breathe-poetry.livejournal.com
Whatever is a burden, let it go.
To tug and tie is futile, let it go.
Like Christian at the river, let it go.
Not that you'll muster the winds, not that.
No one is unmelting trophies, not that.
It's not a one-off trebuchet, not that.
But oh you want to raise the dagged and drear ones.
You want to cut a clearing for the dear ones.
You want to hold and prop and urge the near ones.
Free as air and strong as iron, you'd do it.
Groans, guilts, bent backs, stubbed toes will never do it.
You know what you most loose and lose, so do it.
So do it and take the heart, the roads are long.
Stride straight until the clean shadows are long.
Sleep an unburdened sleep when nights are long.
-Edwin Morgan
**
Very recently, I came across this website. It's absolutely delightful. :)
http://breathe-poetry.livejournal.com
cairo
by G. Willow Wilson
I don't know how to talk about my love for Rumi. The first of his poems I read is called 'Enough Words?'. I was so stunned by it, I could hardly sleep that night. I read it many times over, savoring it, going over the words time and time again. 'Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.' There's so much about those lines - I seek comfort in them, I'm constantly confused by them.
This post though, isn't about Rumi as much as it is about Cairo, a graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson. It brings together a few wayward characters together into something that has been going on for ages past. This place where I am right now was circled on a map for me*. It starts coolly enough, and then with one tiny jerk, you fall down a rabbit hole, end up in the Under Nile where you can be spiderman and water defies gravity. It's one of the most beautiful stories I have read in a very, very long time. It's also something I suspect I will read over and over again, and immediately.
*Google tells me this line is Hafiz, not Rumi.
I don't know how to talk about my love for Rumi. The first of his poems I read is called 'Enough Words?'. I was so stunned by it, I could hardly sleep that night. I read it many times over, savoring it, going over the words time and time again. 'Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.' There's so much about those lines - I seek comfort in them, I'm constantly confused by them.
This post though, isn't about Rumi as much as it is about Cairo, a graphic novel by G. Willow Wilson. It brings together a few wayward characters together into something that has been going on for ages past. This place where I am right now was circled on a map for me*. It starts coolly enough, and then with one tiny jerk, you fall down a rabbit hole, end up in the Under Nile where you can be spiderman and water defies gravity. It's one of the most beautiful stories I have read in a very, very long time. It's also something I suspect I will read over and over again, and immediately.
*Google tells me this line is Hafiz, not Rumi.
soon
Three years ago or more, Zee Studio (I think) ran a series of 'foreign language films' a couple of nights a week at 11.30. I was living with my film-crazy cousin at the time, so the two of us would, whenever we could, sit down and watch these films, then go out for a drink (to pickles!) after.
One of those weeks, they showed Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I couldn't watch the first twenty minutes because I got home very late, I watched about thirty minutes after that, and then stopped watching it because I decided I wasn't doing the film any justice - watching it like that, on TV, with advertisements, not even from the beginning. That was pretty much the end of my Kurosawa experience.
But I've read so much about him, and I've been meaning to finish watching that film, for so long, that when Landmark decided to sell 5 of his DVDs for 500 rupees - I bought it without a second thought. Then, immediately, I also bought Something like an Autobiography on Flipkart. Now, I refresh my 'Track shipment' page every day hoping that it will turn up soon. I plan to watch the movies and read the book, slowly, over the next couple of months. That is my grand plan of the week.
One of those weeks, they showed Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. I couldn't watch the first twenty minutes because I got home very late, I watched about thirty minutes after that, and then stopped watching it because I decided I wasn't doing the film any justice - watching it like that, on TV, with advertisements, not even from the beginning. That was pretty much the end of my Kurosawa experience.
But I've read so much about him, and I've been meaning to finish watching that film, for so long, that when Landmark decided to sell 5 of his DVDs for 500 rupees - I bought it without a second thought. Then, immediately, I also bought Something like an Autobiography on Flipkart. Now, I refresh my 'Track shipment' page every day hoping that it will turn up soon. I plan to watch the movies and read the book, slowly, over the next couple of months. That is my grand plan of the week.
Reading Resolutions for 2012
1. Read less fantasy.
2. Read fiction that is not fantasy.
3. Finish all books that I start this year.
4. Don't read series that have no definite ending yet.
5. Read all the books I buy.
2. Read fiction that is not fantasy.
3. Finish all books that I start this year.
4. Don't read series that have no definite ending yet.
5. Read all the books I buy.
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