microscopic muses

Trees sleeves bear clouds Where leaves.  have a duty  (to be)

  John Keats' concept of 'negative capability' – or sitting in uncertainty – is needed now more than ever Richard Gunderman ,  Indiana University When John Keats died 200 years ago, on Feb. 23, 1821, he was just 25 years old. Despite his short life, he’s still considered one of the finest poets in the English language.  Yet in addition to masterpieces such as “ Ode to a Nightingale ” and “ To Autumn ,” Keats’ legacy includes a remarkable concept: what he called “negative capability.”  The idea – which centers on suspending judgment about something in order to learn more about it – remains as vital today as when he first wrote about it.  Keats lost most of his family members to an infectious disease, tuberculosis, that would take his own life. In the same way the COVID-19 pandemic turned the worlds of many people upside down, the poet had developed a deep sense of life’s uncertainties. Keats  was born in London in 1795 . His father died in a horse-riding accident when Keats

Toxic time Polluted water   Clouds drowning 

creased cloth  iron  innuendoes  break down boarders

  Living on your own A testament to being  Strength in less numbers

The Sun’s warmth  Behind glass windows   Deceptive 

  Running water  Soothing voice Regeneration 

  You leave me Battered and Bruised And yet, still I love you                                                                    

  https://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/interviews/reading-greece/7117-poem-of-the-month-winter-by-miltos-sachtouris POEM OF THE MONTH: 'Winter' by Miltos Sachtouris Miltos Sachtouris   (1919-2005), a native of Athens, Greece, was one of the leading Greek poets of the postwar era. When he was young, he aborted his law studies to follow his real passion, poetry, and adopted the pen name Miltos Chrysanthis, under which he wrote his first poem  The Music of My Islands  in 1941. In 1960, he began publishing  When I Talk to you  and  The Spectres, or Joy on the Other Street . Two years later, he received the Second State Poet Prize for  The Stigmata . He later wrote  The Seal, or The Eighth Moon  (1964) and  The Utensil  (1971) from the publishings of  Keimena . During the last years of his life he worked on  Colorwounds  (1980),  Ectoplasms  (1986),  Sinking  (1990),  Since  (1996) and  The Clocks Turned Upside Down (1998). He received the Grand State Literature Prize in 2003 for   the en

  https://amp.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2021/apr/12/poem-of-the-week-because-by-grace-schulman The Guardian - Back to home News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Carol Rumens's poem of the week Poem of the week: Because by Grace Schulman A complicated song of praise for a world that is part heaven and part hell Carol Rumens Mon 12 Apr 2021 06.30 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Because Because, in a wounded universe, the tufts of grass still glisten, the first daffodil shoots up through ice-melt, and a red-tailed hawk perches on a cathedral spire; and because children toss a fire-red ball in the yard where a schoolhouse façade was scarred by vandals, and joggers still circle a dry reservoir; because a rainbow flaunts its painted ribbons and slips them somewhere underneath the earth; because in a smoky bar the trombone blares louder than street sirens, because those who can no longer speak of pain are singing; and when on this wide meadow in th

Spring’s Winter, where  candles are still lit and (loves) buds remain closed  In fear of feelings being *rejected*