The NY subways sometimes have Poetry in Motion posters in them, on which they display various poems for the sake of entertaining the commuters. I liked this one by Jalaludin Rumi. It made me feel peaceful. It's nice when very few words can say so much so easily.
Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase
each other, doesn't make any sense.
Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase
each other, doesn't make any sense.
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and you summed it up perfectly
"very few words can say so much so easily"
and that is really a gift that many writers don't actually posess.
but poets tend to figure it out and make it look somewhat easy don't they?