tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568671822071244619.post8766027096614764982..comments2023-09-24T11:06:16.922+01:00Comments on Army Poet: Tiredarmy poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12739107922580102279noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568671822071244619.post-17818918907112869202008-10-01T10:25:00.000+01:002008-10-01T10:25:00.000+01:00Thanks Arthur!I have read some Wallace Stevens but...Thanks Arthur!<BR/><BR/>I have read some Wallace Stevens but that was really generous anf thoughtful of you to leave that poem! Remember reading him in college.<BR/>Theodore Roethke (sp) has some good work too..."I knew a woman once, lovely in her bones"...or something like that.<BR/><BR/>best, Army Poetarmy poethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12739107922580102279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568671822071244619.post-54087664471919081272008-09-28T14:45:00.000+01:002008-09-28T14:45:00.000+01:00To Army Poet:I appreciate your writing. Do you kn...To Army Poet:<BR/><BR/>I appreciate your writing. Do you know this poem by Wallace Stevens? For me it expresses bleakness but with a hopeful attitude; that we aren't individuals searching separately and differently but we are part of everything and become everything.<BR/><BR/>Be Well<BR/><BR/>The Snow Man<BR/><BR/>One must have a mind of winter <BR/>To regard the frost and the boughs <BR/>Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;<BR/><BR/>And have been cold a long time <BR/>To behold the junipers shagged with ice, <BR/>The spruces rough in the distant glitter<BR/><BR/>Of the January sun; and not to think <BR/>Of any misery in the sound of the wind, <BR/>In the sound of a few leaves,<BR/><BR/>Which is the sound of the land <BR/>Full of the same wind <BR/>That is blowing in the same bare place<BR/><BR/>For the listener, who listens in the snow, <BR/>And, nothing himself, beholds <BR/>Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08085346243780100935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3568671822071244619.post-38183013944436568742008-09-24T15:51:00.000+01:002008-09-24T15:51:00.000+01:00The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blo...The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post <A HREF="http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/09/from-front-09242008.html" REL="nofollow">From the Front: 09/24/2008 </A> News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.David Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153191536633461987noreply@blogger.com