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Just past dawn, the sun stands
with its heavy red head
in a black stanchion of trees,
waiting for someone to come
with his bucket
for the foamy white light,
and then a long day in the pasture.
I too spend my days grazing,
feasting on every green moment
till darkness calls,
and with the others
I walk away into the night,
swinging the little tin bell
of my name.
Ted Kooser
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John Tiong Chunghoo
(9/24/2006 4:11:00 AM) |
ted, i love this one. very creative.
birthday candles
one by one i wish
my dreams come true
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Brian Dorn
(7/20/2006 4:12:00 PM) |
Like cows, man feasts on its own kind of green, ... but it's grazing just the same.
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Joyce Chelmo
(4/18/2006 3:35:00 PM) |
I love the poem, it's beautifully succinct, and the descriptives are
stunning. I like the feel of it as well. I'm a big fan of your work as well.
Joyce
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Michael Shepherd
(1/26/2006 6:11:00 AM) |
I love poems and poets where subtlety is presented as simplicity.
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Uriah Hamilton
(8/30/2005 11:19:00 AM) |
Not strictly a great poem but a certain charm in the simplicity.
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ZhaoNian (Michael) Chen
(4/5/2005 7:56:00 PM) |
Oh yeah, I like that poem. 'Do not go gently into that good night' is one of the best lines. This poem is very good.
This poem, with its simple words, gives small poets like us hope because our poems dont look much different from this. I like poems that do that.
You like that?
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Chris Garcia
(3/2/2005 7:54:00 AM) |
This is obviously a poem about death.
Its very different in tone from Dylan Thomas' poem about the death of his father, telling to him to rage against death and 'not go gently into that good night'. This is a poem which doesn't seem to fear death, looking at it as the natural end of a day's hard work such a person woking a dairy farm might have. My favorite line is the one about the 'small tin bell' in which the author is kind of laughng at his own self importance.
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Percy Dovetonsils
(1/29/2005 1:34:00 PM) |
Moving. Almost heartbreaking in its simplicity.
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Willem Vanvoorthuysen
(11/12/2004 12:35:00 PM) |
The beauty of simple everyday happenings, seen only by a sensitive soul... You have it, Ted.
Bill
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