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Today was February 2nd, the sort of still but maybe no longer annual Bloggers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (Silent) Poetry Reading in honor of St. Brigid, patron saint of poetry.<\/p>\n

I missed last year, in part because the tradition has mostly gone by the wayside. But I liked it when we all shared poetry on our blogs, so I’m resuming it, at least for 2020.<\/p>\n

This one is for the English majors and poetry geeks amongst us:<\/p>\n

A Tale of Two Metres
\n     ~Tom Disch<\/p>\n

I heard a little couplet cry:
\n‘Will God or Someone tell me why
\nWe couplets are condemned to squeeze
\nOur wisdom into shapes like these?
\nTo speak with gravity and treat
\nOf higher truths one needs more feet:
\nFour will not do! Four are too few.
\nFive<\/em> feet for me or I am through!’<\/p>\n

Not only I but Poesy had heard:
\nShe raised her sceptre, uttered not a word,
\nBut struck the couplet dead. And what do you think?
\nIts ashes stirred — and formed, in living ink,
\nA couplet calm as Zeno and as stoic —
\nThe couplet known to fame as The Heroic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In previous years, I’ve shared poems by Sharon Olds<\/a>, Emily Dickinson<\/a>, Kyle Dargan<\/a>, Barbara Crooker<\/a>, William Stafford<\/a>, Mary Oliver<\/a> (twice<\/a>), Wislawa Szymborska<\/a>, Stuart Dischell<\/a>, Jean Esteve<\/a>, John Frederick Nims<\/a>, Grace Paley<\/a>, Heather McHugh<\/a>, and Barbara Hamby<\/a>, all of which are worth another read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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