Miscellaneous Mishegoss

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~ It is Friday, February 4th, 8:20am as I type this and the temp is 55º with a steady rain. After weeks (and weeks) of unusually cold weather today is a real treat, even with the rain, which quite frankly, I enjoy. Rain is cozy. (I just stepped away from the computer to crack all the windows – AHHH – fresh air! Gotta love it!)

~ I didn’t get much sleep last night because my brain was in overdrive, again/still. Plus Friday is laundry day, and knowing that I have to get up early to get that done (community laundry room) means my subconscious says “Don’t go to sleep, you have to get up early”.  Happens on Sunday nights too because – Monday is also a laundry day.  Knowing that I can’t sleep as long as I want/need keeps me from sleeping altogether which is why I can’t nap.

~ Remember how I said poetry was one of my passions? I would love to explain it all to you, and that was what was going through my brain. Explaining it all, trying to share with you my passion. How it all works, what it all is – I could expound for hours about poetry. I am so tempted to end this post with links to poems that blew me away when I first read them. Poetry is so immediate. A great poem just grabs you by the throat…Annnd – there I go. I will stop now.

~ Just one more observation. Last night during my mental lecture I realized that many of my favorite poems share the same theme. I actually got up to check on a poem to see if I was remembering it correctly. I was.

Here it is – i carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings (Yes, e.e. cummings is also famous for not using capitals.)

18 thoughts on “Miscellaneous Mishegoss”

  1. It’s either love or the heart. One might say that in poetry they are likely the same. Exception being Poe’s creepy beating-heart murderous poems. Not that I really know all that much. I am taking a stab in the dark.

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        1. I should had added the poems that share the imagery – hard to guess with just the one poem – My mistake in how I offered that challenge. I shall go edit….

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  2. “Lnks to poems that blew me away when I first read them” I would not mind reading all of those when I get some downtime. Why not do it? You would enjoy doing that post and others would enjoy reading it. 🙃

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        1. Ha! I just amended the post to address your comments. I didn’t link your name to your blog – would you like me to do that. When I mention another blogger I usually link…choice is yours.

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  3. though mere hours ago I espoused no love of poetry,
    (see what happens when I try to sound poetic?)
    i read the e. e. cummings poem you linked,
    and liked it very much.
    Despite the fact, I add, that the by-line the Poetry Foundation used was in ALL CAPS. (cummings. grave. spinning sound.) What I noticed was the almost hypnotic rhythm of the thing. Given one data point, I’ll go with that.

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    1. No that’s not it- without the other poems to compare it is a bad question I posed. But – rhythm and meter is what distinguishes poetry from prose. Poetry MUST HAVE rhythm/meter. I don’t care what anyone else says – So there Thppt! Now then if hypnotic rhythm catches your fancy try Swinburne -https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45288/the-garden-of-proserpine
      and if you really want to do your head in there is Gerard Manley Hopkins who invented the poetic format he called ‘sprung rhythm’ – https://poets.org/poem/windhover

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        1. Enjoy moving! I mean that because I LOVE moving. I think it’s fun. I also acknowledge that I may be in small minority on that. Swinburne is fun to read, especially out loud and, as I said Hopkins will make you crazy, especially that particular poem.

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  4. Walnuttos? Am I one of the walnuttos you have collected// Wasn’t there a little square candy back in the day called Walnettos? “Backward, turn backward, O, Time, in your flight. . .”

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    1. Yup, walnettos, one of George’s favorites. And, no not you, dear man. On WP, people will look for posts via the tags. I’ve tagged posts ‘poetry’ and all sorts of folks respond, leave strange comments and just act flaky.

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  5. Haha, Grace. The poetry nutters, huh? I am really glad I stumbled on your blog via Ashley. You are one of a kind, and New Yorker to the core 🙂. I love it.
    It always surprises me when you have these little polite moments though. I have to say. It’s YOUR blog, Ma’am.
    If you want to link over 50 poems in a day, have at it, and anybody who does not like it can piss off. 😆

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    1. Polite moments? I suppose just calling them walnuttos and nutters instead of what I really think of them is polite…Oh you mean like not posting a lot of poetry links – it would be sensory overload and that’s not how to get people to love what I love – a little taste here and there might whet appetites. That said, I’m writing a post now that will contain a poetry link (Uh-oh!)

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