I was just looking at this blog, and I noticed the date of the last entry. I haven't updated in over a month. How did the time fly by so quickly that I didn't even realize it? I've been busy with moving, and working, and working, and working. What else? Nasty ice storm, car full of stuff, 60% humidity in my apartment, and we're already halfway through 2nd quarter. This year is flying by, but the days tick by slowly until they're gone. I don't even have time for a regular post, just this little rant. And a poem that captures some of my frustrations when teaching poetry.
Introduction To Poetry
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
4 comments:
60% humidity? I suppose that's what all the popsicles [and halal fudgesicles] are for!
hah!
that was a great poem.
I rmr reading one in high school, about two boys playing catch with a poem. It was in my Bedford anthology.
It was Beautiful.
I think that I shall never see
a poem from Nassir Kotelensky
or an article or a note,
for he barely ever writes a post
Even though I have subscribed
and check my RSS feeds every night
I read and write and check again
To see if Nassir used his pen.
I must be content with this fate
With only seven articles to date.
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Abdul Sattar al-Amriki :)
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