Showing posts with label Negative Capability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Negative Capability. Show all posts

Sunday, July 18, 2021

This Poem is Your Work Too (at least the good parts...)

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com 

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

This Poem is Your Work Too

 

This poem is your work too; you are its hope

Every poem is for the reader who gives

The poem a mission in its words and lines

A safe place to land, as McKuen says

 

This poem is your work too; you are its voice

So, please, dream it, breathe it, build it, shape it

Into something you want or need or love

Arrange it in a vase of summer flowers

 

This poem is your work too, a gift of caritas

Think it by lamplight; play it in sunlight

 

After all, you are its reason for being

 

Thank you

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Negative Capability - poem

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Negative Capability in a Basket
 
Negative capability is not
A basket that bore hens’ eggs yesterday
And will carry tomatoes tomorrow
Is not empty today
 
An empty basket is a positive space
Which is laden with possibilities
A book, a dream a hope, a picnic lunch
And thus quite full today
 
There is no emptiness within its rands
Slews
Wales
Stakes
Bye-stakes
Upsetts
Fitches
For we will fill our baskets with good things