Poems that mean something to you

simple prosaic of  #ThomasHardy from #TheMayorofCasterbridge.. a quoted will of Henchard in the story’s end..  but feels such melting poetics in within… weeping in a Himalayan heaviness, digging in an oceanic pain.. juzme :(

Douglas Dunn

maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles: and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea

- E.E. Cummings

David Constantine (from Nine Fathom Deep)

Sara Teasdale