April is National Poetry Month and we are in the second week of featuring poems of note for the Quote of the Week. This week's poem is by former Poet Laureate of the United States, Billy Collins. It is a interesting poem (Link to the animated version) that had a way of staying in my mind. Tell me what you think!
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The Dead
The dead are always looking down on us,
they say,
while we are putting on our shoes or making a sandwich,
they are looking down through the glass-bottom boats,
of heaven as they row themselves slowly through eternity.
They watch the tops of our heads moving below on earth,
And when we lie down in a field or on a couch,
Drugged perhaps by the hum of a warm afternoon,
They think we are looking back at them,
which makes them lift their oars and fall silent and wait,
like parents,
for us to close our eyes
Billy Collins
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For an animated version ot the above poem, check out the following link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuTNdHadwbk
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A Recycled Quote of the Week Classic...
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott
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Wishing you a most beautiful day, wherever this may find you!
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