Two Poets In A Garden Poem by Daniel Brick
Two Poets In A Garden
for Glen, in appreciation
The two poets sat under the shade
of a maple tree. One was reading
over and over the same poem of Hafez.
His voice was tied in knots. "Why,
why doesn't it ascend? " he thought.
The other poet had closed his book.
He smiled as he watched a sparrow
hop and fly from lower branches
to higher branches of the maple.
Would he reach the sun-branch before
dark? "Come, my friend, " he said
suddenly. "Let's walk in the garden,
until we find a door that admits
both of us to the precincts of Paradise."
This one made me smile. First of all, the poems of Hafez and then the lightness of a sparrow moving and ascending slowly among branches without a care in the world about progress. The walk in the garden until one finds a door that admits 'us' to the 'precincts of Paradise' with a capital 'P' sounds like a lovely 'apotheotic' suggestion. :)
Yes, it's a small poem meant to give delight, or rather an unpretentious poem, about difference responses to experience.
Searching for a door to paradise, lovely poem Daniel Happy new year
Thanks much, Rini. Yoi're invited to my New Years Eve party at the PRECINCTS OF PARADISE. Just tell the Angel guarding the gate, yoi're an honored guest!
Would he reach the sun-branch before dark? - - - - - - - Poetry is a deep quest for light- - -May it be found in reading other great poets or leaving mind free to wander in the beauty of nature- - - - -Yes it opens the door to paradise where poets find ultimate peace and joy.Great work, thanks for sharing.
A DEEP QUEST FOR LIGHT - that's a wonderful way to put it. The ultimate pay-off is not money or fame but a sense of beauty in life and the world. We can this very week celebrate the accomplishments of another year of poetry! !
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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4/25/2024 5:30:24 AM # 1.0.0.1119
daniel, thank you. you have us both outside, and this reminds me of a phrase that is central, as i understand it, to celtic christianity, i.e., the book of nature. there's the book of scripture and any other book (of poems or? ? ?) that may inspire us, but we both open ourselves and find so much in the book of nature. -glen