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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (100523)4/7/2005 12:31:40 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Poetry is good. One can never get too much of it. Poets are concise; every word hits hard or goes to the scrap heap.

The poems I posted over on The Poetry Corner were just some that caught my eye, one from each volume as I put it on my bookshelf.

I know of three poets who became mystery writers, and have signed copies of mysteries by two of them. For my taste, they make the BEST mystery writers.

Here's a poem by Richard Hugo. He is one of the three, but unfortunately he's the one I don't have signed. He called himself a "poet of place." You can see what he meant in the following lines.

Degrees Of Gray In Philipsburg


You might come here Sunday on a whim.
Say your life broke down. The last good kiss
you had was years ago. You walk these streets
laid out by the insane, past hotels
that didn't last, bars that did, the tortured try
of local drivers to accelerate their lives.
Only churches are kept up. The jail
turned 70 this year. The only prisoner
is always in, not knowing what he's done...


this poem goes on, if you care to see it, here's the rest:
completeclassics.com

I've been to Philipsburg, and many of the places Hugo wrote about. He captures them so perfectly it is spooky, like you are walking dreamlike in that place.

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