Not Needing Things Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

This a moral sentiment implicit in many of your Poems of the Interior Life. You express a quiet but firm impatience with all of the stuff (or junk) that clutters our materialistic lives. Robert Bly expressed this moral position in a poem he wrote in the early 1960s (He's now 88) : THE LOON'S CRY ROSE. IT WAS THE CRY OF SOMEONE WHO OWNED VERY LITTLE. (The loon is the Minnesota State Bird.) Robert Bly is not only a great poet, he is a great person. He always responds to me when I see him at readings, and I'm in AWE of him. Check him out RoseAnn. He is included in all the major anthologies of American poetry.