yea random poetry spam
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yukieI think it's a rule that Canadian poets have to do at least one work about trees -
Dark Pines Under Water
Gwendolyn MacEwen
From: The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972
This land like a mirror turns you inward
And you become a forest in a furtive lake;
The dark pines of your mind reach downward,
You dream in the green of your time,
Your memory is a row of sinking pines.
Explorer, you tell yourself, this is not what you came for
Although it is good here, and green;
You had meant to move with a kind of largeness,
You had planned a heavy grace, an anguished dream.
But the dark pines of your mind dip deeper
And you are sinking, sinking, sleeper
In an elementary world;
There is something down there and you want it told.
Dark Pines Under Water
Gwendolyn MacEwen
From: The Shadow-Maker. Toronto: Macmillan, 1972
This land like a mirror turns you inward
And you become a forest in a furtive lake;
The dark pines of your mind reach downward,
You dream in the green of your time,
Your memory is a row of sinking pines.
Explorer, you tell yourself, this is not what you came for
Although it is good here, and green;
You had meant to move with a kind of largeness,
You had planned a heavy grace, an anguished dream.
But the dark pines of your mind dip deeper
And you are sinking, sinking, sleeper
In an elementary world;
There is something down there and you want it told.
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Date: 2011-05-19 04:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-19 01:33 pm (UTC)I just - I've SEEN those landscapes firsthand, up where the Canadian Shield starts around highway 7. Where the bedrock's like two feet down under the soil often, and it's usually a pink - i think it's granite. And they can't jackhammer it because it's too dang hard and that'd take ages, and have to ESPLOD if they want to move it anywhere or widen a highway. Algonquin Park (a.k.a. Big McLarge Huge) is probably the most famous park up there, though I've never been; Silent Lake is the one I'm really familiar with.
I haven't been camping in ages but I still REMEMBER seeing reflections like that on water. Everythng's so green, and it even SMELLS green, and at night you can look up and on really clear moonless nights there's so many damn stars that you can lose the big dipper sometimes.
tl;dr Yukie is so Canadian omfg and she really likes trees XD I could live without the blackflies though. Oh gawd.
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Date: 2011-05-20 03:38 am (UTC)