A description of what started this particular blog can be found in its first entry --Feb. 9, 2009. It's about healing.
Friday, April 10, 2009
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I find another Looking at a maple leaf Frozen in snow. A hundred years apart We share the same thought! We jostle the same instant! Clearly if I want To read your mind Reaching out is The wrong direction.
Now this one, even after a second and third reading, is delightfully elusive: I get the feeling but I can't put it in words. Reminds me of the controversies surrounding the meaning of "Stopping by Fields."
This might help: Poem was written 20 years ago when I really did come upon a maple leaf frozen in snow. I was immediately reminded of a poem by Masaoka Shiki:
"Frozen in the ice A maple leaf."
It was one of those moments when linear time sense is compromised by something closer to reality.
Now this one, even after a second and third reading, is delightfully elusive: I get the feeling but I can't put it in words. Reminds me of the controversies surrounding the meaning of "Stopping by Fields."
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ReplyDeleteThis might help: Poem was written 20 years ago when I really did come upon a maple leaf frozen in snow. I was immediately reminded of a poem by Masaoka Shiki:
"Frozen in the ice
A maple leaf."
It was one of those moments when linear time sense is compromised by something closer to reality.
Geo.
Yes! It's like seeing your response came through at one of my favorite time, 1:11!
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