The Pocket Emily Dickinson | 
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Famous-poets-as-slugs card by my son.
Famous-poets-as-slugs card by my son.
#PoetryMatters - Dark: I enjoy the photo challenges on Litsy, because they reacquaint me with some books/poems/authors that I haven‘t read in many years. The challenges necessitate a good look at your books owned or borrowed and other reading materials. I‘ve been spending time with poetry anthologies purchased years ago while I was in school and it‘s joyous to be amongst their pages again and to have validation of why I never got rid of them!😁
There's a certain slant of light,
On winter afternoons,
That oppresses, like the weight
Of cathedral tunes.
Heavenly hurt it gives us;
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the meanings are.
None may teach it anything,
'Tis the seal, despair,-
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the air.
When it comes, the landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath;
When it goes, 't is like the distance
On the look of death.
#QuotsyNov18 #Certain
Well, actually, I'm Kate Keogan (I had another poem accepted for publication today! 😄) but this quiz result is uncomfortably close to the truth!
https:/www.penguinrandomhouse.com/which-poet-are-you/
My dad had no idea what giving me this little book of Dickinson poems would do. She was the first poet I ever truly loved & this is part of why. #poetry #emilydickinson
