After all the harangues, the children hawking baubles, the young men with hard-luck stories and health dramas, it is a relief when the poets come down the aisle of the Buenos Aires subway trains. They are soft-spoken if they even speak at all. They are well but simply dressed. Perhaps they wear their hair tied…
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6 responses to “Poems That Move You”
Wow Kevin! What a beautiful short story! Keep them coming. They are amazing.
Victoria: Many thanks! I will gladly keep them coming! Abrazos! Kevin
As a poet who typically doesn’t go out of her way to read poetry, I can relate. But, when there’s something to be made a fuss about, I want in on it. When an intimate connection is made through language, it’s thrilling. I’m curious about what you thought about the poetry once you’d read it — since you would have a different perspective from the average reader. Beautiful vignette as always.
Maraya: To be honest, it didn’t move me… which left me, once again, feeling a bit jealous of those who were moved. I would have liked to shake gleefully like Raphael… but it didn’t happen this time.
How can a poet not to be moved by poetry ?
Maybe Fernando Pessoa can answer in his Autopsicography:
The poet is a faker
Who’s so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact.
And those who read his words
Will feel in his writing
Neither of the pains he has
But just the one they’re missing.
And so around its track
This thing called the heart winds,
A little clockwork train
To entertain our minds.
© 1931, Fernando Pessoa (himself)
From: Poesia
Publisher: Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2006
ISBN: 972-37-1072-2
© Translation: 2006, Richard Zenith
From: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
Publisher: Penguin, New York, 2006, 0-14-303955-5
Very evocative, and a great ending. Now *I* want to read these poems! Though I wonder if they would move me. Those that do possess a rare alchemy. Still, the search continues.