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Jane Kenyon
Jane Kenyon Jane Kenyon lived and wrote poems from 1947 to 1995. Jane Kenyon written April 17th, 2021 I want to ask her so many questions, like why she chose to put that one word alone on that line. But she has gone where I can not ask so I will have to find my answers in the spaces between her words in the pauses at the ends of lines and in the silences between her stanzas. |
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2 of my favorite poems by Jane Kenyon. I could post so many! __________ Afternoon In The House [1978] by Jane Kenyon It’s quiet here. The cats sprawl, each in a favored place. The geranium leans this way to see if I’m writing about her: head all petals, brown stalks, and those green fans. So you see, I am writing about you. I turn on the radio. Wrong. Let’s not have any noise in this room, except the sound of a voice reading a poem. The cats request The Meadow Mouse, by Theodore Roethke. The house settles down on its haunches for a doze. I know you are with me, plants, and cats—and even so, I’m frightened, sitting in the middle of perfect possibility. __________ Peonies At Dusk [1993] by Jane Kenyon White peonies blooming along the porch send out light while the rest of the yard grows dim. Outrageous flowers as big as human heads! They’re staggered by their own luxuriance: I had to prop them up with stakes and twine. The moist air intensifies their scent, and the moon moves around the barn to find out what it’s coming from. In the darkening June evening I draw a blossom near, and bending close search it as a woman searches a loved one’s face.
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4/22/2021 2:17 pm |
good poem I want to take you into the fiery lair of steamy sexual delight on this hot sultry night.
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i think you wrote a perfect poem about her. i can see by her work where you get some of your inspiration
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Words well written.
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It is interesting how a poem can communicate, even through it's form or appearance. I like how you pay tribute to Kenyon, who I intend to look into. It is also interesting how spaces can speak. I am not shore if our American culture appreciates such nuances as other cultures. Of course this is a generalized observation, and there are segments of our population of all sorts. But if you look at the Japanese for example. They, as a culture, have an appreciation for these sorts of things. Of course they are collective and no better or worse than anyone else. I was looking into the style of their comic books and story telling styles and they definitely use space to their advantage and to advance their narratives and meanings. All these things are cool to delve into. Great writing. *. *. *
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