april 5 - a sort of a hymn
when you walk up the mountain- side, pass the rest stop where blue flowers in a split of light do you want need to know which way the heart- wood faces?
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of course you do. Because you are human and in need of hymns of some kind though most don't realize it.
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Alison'in a split of light' I think animals and poets know this.S
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Love the simplicity of this. I am on the mountainside with you. It is indeed a sort of hymn.
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I, too, love the simplicity and particularly the split of light. Is "want need" intended? A little hiccup in the flow. I think "need" alone would work fine.
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stop where blueflowers"flowers" turns out to be a verb - lovely.
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Toni, do you want need to know? Or, do you want to know? I think the poem wants the former. hiccups seem to be my wont, this month.
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Funny how we are both hymn-bound in our 5th poem, especially since my subject is an Alison and your subject is a mountainside and I am from Switzerland. This is lovely and I love the way Esther caught...
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wow. Funny thing, Johanna, -and thanks everyone!- the poem just wrote itself, well i paid attention to the next word coming, lots of space, much as it reads, ( and at first I thought want need was a...
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Sweet air up there. I don't want need both the want and the need though others may need want want want it :-)
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Hmmm.... not sure. At this moment, I think "need" is better. They are really different.
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no really, they both are needed, and wanted. want need need want.this is deep stuff. Be glad I haven't brought up who this I is.
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sorry to bump this up- was just copying it to my nest file. Greta, I didn't really get your comment until now. Thought the poem might have irritated you. Of course you want need to know: that's having...
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