Thanks kindly for these insights. I also adore this poem. I recently learned that this poem was directly inspired by a traditional story of a Native American Elder in the Pacific Northwest. It feels important to honour this origin.
Please be gentle and kind. For me the beauty of poetry is that it can be open to many different interpretations. My interpretation is different from yours - and from the reader's - but the beauty of poetry is that it does not define as prose attempts to. Poetry leaves breathing space for flowing into and out of. I don't see this poem as either a lament or an admonition but as an invitation to suspend conceptualisation, to let go of using the familiar no longer alive past as any indication of what an imagined future will be, and to rest in innocent being, to rest in not knowing, in surrender to the support of Nature and the Love and the Goodness of our existence which we and all creatures share. Much Love.
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Thanks kindly for these insights. I also adore this poem. I recently learned that this poem was directly inspired by a traditional story of a Native American Elder in the Pacific Northwest. It feels important to honour this origin.
Extraordinary poem of truth
Well done 👍
🙏🏼🇨🇦🌹♥️🌸🌺🌻🌼♥️🙏🏼
Clearly enunciated but far too angry in its reading. This is a lament, an anguished cry ,not an opportunity to admonish.
Please be gentle and kind. For me the beauty of poetry is that it can be open to many different interpretations. My interpretation is different from yours - and from the reader's - but the beauty of poetry is that it does not define as prose attempts to. Poetry leaves breathing space for flowing into and out of. I don't see this poem as either a lament or an admonition but as an invitation to suspend conceptualisation, to let go of using the familiar no longer alive past as any indication of what an imagined future will be, and to rest in innocent being, to rest in not knowing, in surrender to the support of Nature and the Love and the Goodness of our existence which we and all creatures share. Much Love.