I picked up this book because I went to High school with a boy named Charles Simic. No, he didn't write poetry & Charles Siomic, winner of a Pulitzer prize never attended school in Cleveland, Ohio.
The poems are deceptively simple. This book was published in 2003 so they are his latest, new! modern! What I like best about them is he uses nature - trees appear in many of these poems and the sky & the seasons. There is a timeless quality to them - we my believe that everything has changed - at least from our century to say -1800, but there are symbols - that unconsciously remind us of certain human traits, picking up at randon "Unmade Beds" ..."In the moment of sweet indolence That follows lovemaking, When the meanest of hearts Comes to believe Happiness can last forever."
Styles in writing poetry may come and go, but the best poets may be those who keep their pen to the paper, writing what their heart dictates - letting in only what they see as truth."
AT THE CORNER The two fat sisters Kept a candy store dim and narrow with dusty jars of jaw-breaking candy.
We stayed thin, stayed Glum, chewing gum while staring at the shoes of men and women Rushing in and out.
Making the newspapers outside flutter audibly nder the lead weights, their headlines screaming In and out of our view.
The poems are deceptively simple. This book was published in 2003 so they are his latest, new! modern!
What I like best about them is he uses nature - trees appear in many of these poems and the sky & the seasons. There is a timeless quality to them - we my believe that everything has changed - at least from our century to say -1800, but there are symbols -
that unconsciously remind us of certain human traits,
picking up at randon "Unmade Beds"
..."In the moment of sweet indolence
That follows lovemaking,
When the meanest of hearts
Comes to believe
Happiness can last forever."
Styles in writing poetry may come and go, but the best poets may be those who keep their pen to the paper, writing what their heart dictates -
letting in only what they see as truth."
AT THE CORNER
The two fat sisters
Kept a candy store
dim and narrow
with dusty jars
of jaw-breaking candy.
We stayed thin, stayed
Glum, chewing gum
while staring at the shoes
of men and women
Rushing in and out.
Making the newspapers
outside flutter audibly
nder the lead weights,
their headlines screaming
In and out of our view.
'WHE