I return to Wislawa Szymborska once again.. for her simple yet profound words..”My apologies to great questions for small answers.”
This poem like all her poems can be interpreted on several levels but what can be felt especially strongly is the universally human meaning, here having both an existential and a deeply ethical dimension.
A Few Words [...]
Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 14 Jan 2010
Linda Pastan’s poems follow this humble equation that from nothing or little comes much to those who look closely and perceive. Pastan’s poems are based on close observation that results often in profound expressions of truth from the human heart.
What we want
is never simple.
We move among the things
we thought we wanted:
a face, a room, [...]
Life & Poetry Entropy | 23 Dec 2009
Wishing all the Entropy readers and friends Seasons Greetings…
LET’S GIVE THE WORLD TO THE CHILDREN
Let’s give the world to the children just for one day
like a balloon in bright and striking colours to play with
let them play singing among the stars
let’s give the world to the children
like a huge apple like a warm loaf of [...]
Wish to introduce work of another Polish Poet & Author Tadeusz Rozewicz (1921 – Present) who writes with the unabated intensity, a talkative tenseness built into his struggle with language as art.
He is a seeker of new forms in poetic expression that abandon the avant-garde for aesthetic straightforwardness and the stunning short-cuts that are a [...]
Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.- In his words – Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
I reckon this poem is about the fact that we rarely reveal our true personalities. Our outward facade is [...]
Nature & Poetry Entropy | 07 Oct 2009
What chemistry!” The rapt poet Walt Whitman contemplates the mystery by which humans and animals rot into the life-giving soil. “It renews with such unwitting looks its prodigal, annual, sumptuous crops, / It gives such divine materials to men, and accepts such leavings from them at last.
While composting is a practical chore we suffer to [...]