Oh Beautiful

Oh Beautiful
by jamh
30-Dec-2007
 

Oh Beautiful,

I've heard of you.

What could you do

to a man of science?

 

Oh, no!

What simple lines

could you recite

while bending so?

 

Is melancholy

this new to me?

My hand will shake

if I just let go..

 

 

jam07

 


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Re: jamh

by Free Thinker (not verified) on

Thanks.
Your explanation helped.


jamh

I don't know if explaining

by jamh on

I don't know if explaining a poem is a good thing or not. You can just read it, a little slow, a little loud, and see what impression it leaves.

But since you asked, here is the explanation. After all, it is such a little thing.

There are three quatrains. The first is expectation, but also reluctance or resistance. It is coming from a rational point of view, as opposed to the second one, which is encounter, an encounter that draws him in in spite of everything. This is the plane of the feminine. Its attraction cannot be easily explained, you fall and you don't know why, because the fall was coded through milleniums, through species, through the absolute laws of attraction. The last one is reflection, and regret, and helplessness. He has fallen, in more ways than one.

Enjoy.


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What?

by Free Thinker (not verified) on

What???


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