Rinku! this poem is one of my personal favorites. Your poem "listening" and Jane's poem on wells always remind me of this one. Thankyou for posting it...
--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > some time ago we had a number of postings on wells. > > Here's a lovely poem by Heaney. > > > > > `Personal Helicon' > > As a child, they could not keep me from wells > > And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. > > I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells > > Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss. > > One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top. > > I savoured the rich crash when a bucket > > Plummeted down at the end of a rope. > > So deep you saw no reflection in it. > > A shallow one under a dry stone ditch > > Fructified like any aquarium. > > When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch > > A white face hovered over the bottom. > > Others had echoes, gave back your own call > > With a clean new music in it. And one > > Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall > > Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection. > > Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, > > To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring > > Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme > > To see myself, to set the darkness echoing. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/yqIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- You are encouraged to post poetry, respond critically to the poems circulated and participate in discussions. To post, email your message to [email protected] OR post online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post/ Tell friends to subscribe to ZESTPoets by sending a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if they have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join/ ---theZESTcommunity-------------- [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ --- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
