Poetry and History
Posted by Vikas Acharya on November 17, 2016All image credit and article goes to: merrildsmith.wordpress.com
Yesterday and today: Merril's historical musings
Monday Morning Musings
With Susan Weidener at my poetry workshop for her Women’s Writing Circle
“Prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in their best order.”
–Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Herodotus says, “Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
–Mark Twain, A Horse’s Tale (1907)
“I dream a dream that dreams back at me”
–Toni Morrison, A Mercy
It was a weekend of poetry and history,
ancient arts,
poetry, the word
derived from the ancient Greek, “I create,”
the forms,
honed over centuries,
the sea metric cadences of Homer,
the structure of Shakespeare’s sonnets,
the beauty of its language and rhymes,
discussing love and mortality,
the spare words of Emily Dickinson
magic with dashes
varied styles,
reflections on nature and life
best words in best order,
words in place and…
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