Showing posts with label Samuel Amadon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Samuel Amadon. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Days of Future Dwell (Samuel Amadon)

Poets.org classified this poem by Samuel Amadon as poem about the future. I guess I can see that, but when I first read it, I thought it was more about the art of creation.

It starts with a dancer (creator of art) and moves through creating something - the feelings ("be happy again") and the act ("why I pick the tact / from the floor, why I / finger it like a shell."). It ends with the knowing fact that art (like life) keeps on.

Maybe it's the future of creativity? Your creative spark is not lost (you may have hit a patch of writers' block), but it is a constant presence. If it seems lost, it's not. It is only trailing a little bit behind ("you / can hear it all coming").

Favorite line: "As grass is covered / with grass that's mown"
As grass is covered
with grass that’s mown,a
why I pick the tack
from the floor, why I
finger it like a shell. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23409#sthash.iZDKZ38C.dpuf
why I pick the tack
from the floor, why I
finger it like a shell. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23409#sthash.iZDKZ38C.dpuf