Meditation-Introspection & Poetry Entropy | 14 Jan 2010
What We Want
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, an open book
and these things bear our names–
now they want us.
But what we want appears
in dreams, wearing disguises.
We fall past,
holding out our arms
and in the morning
our arms ache.
We don’t remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table,
as the stars are there
~ Linda Pastan ~
on 15 Jan 2010 at 4:41 am 1.Michele said …
A beautiful poem is always uplifting.
“We don’t remember the dream,
but the dream remembers us.
It is there all day
as an animal is there
under the table…”
on 17 Jan 2010 at 3:56 am 2.marie ancolie said …
Thanks Ajay for giving me the pleasure to read a beautiful poem,
and to discover this poet..
I think that Michele will like the poem below, from Linda Pastan too
Petit-Dejeuner
I sing a song
of the croissant
and of the wily French
who trick themselves daily
back to the world
for its sweet ceremony.
Ah to be reeled
up into morning
on that crisp,
buttery
hook.
Linda Pastan