From Arthur To Zen Poem by Janet Budd
From Arthur To Zen
31st December 1919 – 6th March 2005
Don’t know where to find him.
How can I truly care?
He left nothing behind him.
Tokens that would remind him
He’d scattered, who knows where.
Don’t know where to find him.
Where was the link to bind him
To his child? Should I care
He left nothing behind him?
I found a note signed by him.
Familiar yet rare.
Don’t know where to find him.
I wrote to define him
In curls and loops we share.
He left nothing behind him.
Maybe life resigned him
To desire but not to dare.
Don’t know where to find him
He left nothing behind him.
This is the first piece of your work that I have had the pleasure of reading, I shall take the time to read more.
Interesting poem. However, I do wonder to whom you speak of. maybe that question is what makes this so beautiful and intriguing. Congrats on being chosen 'poem of the da'. Well-deserved! !
Beautiful poem. Title speaks a volume. A Like of detachment and a life of attachment depicted so well.
Amen to what Kay Staley said below. Great comments mirroring my thoughts almost exactly. Also, congratulations for having this poem chosen as poem of the day on January 7 for three years in a row now!
I like the repetitive pattern of the words Left nothing behind him... Indicates a feeling of both emptiness and indifference at the same time.
The lyrical repetition of the word him in spite of not ryming sounds soothing when read outloud. Vague about the relationship between the author and who the author is writing about. Invokes ideas of wondering about your own past and what you leave behind. The best part is when the author asks themself if they should care that the person left nothing behind them. When other people hide is it our problem to find them? Not a bad poem but lacks identity that the reader would want to link themselves with.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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