Pause

Have been studying lots of Maths lately. Just took a short break to enter two poems, and check Li-Shia's blog (she's finally posted something after such a long time!).

It's her birthday today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY LI-SHIA! (Some pictures from Thursday coming up soon, after she puts hers on her blog, that is).


From May 11 and 12 respectively, Poetry Speaks calendar.

Silence by Marianne Moore

My father used to say,
"Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow's grave
nor the glass flowers at Harvard.
Self reliant like the cat--
that takes its prey to privacy,
the mouse's limp tail hanging like a shoelace from its mouth--
they sometimes enjoy solitude,
and can be robbed of speech
by speech which has delighted them.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;
not in silence, but restraint."
Nor was he insincere in saying, "Make my house your inn."
Inns are not residences.

[I love the part from 'they sometimes...' till '...but restraint']

Beware of Things in Duplicate... by Dana Gioia

Beware of things in duplicate:
a set of knives, the cufflinks in a drawer,
the dice, the pair of Queens, the eyes
of someone sitting next to you.
Attend that empty minute in the evening
when looking at the clock, you see
its hands are fixed on the same hour
you noticed at your morning coffee.
These are the moments to beware
when there is nothing so familiar
or so close that it cannot betray you:
a twin, an extra key, an echo,
your own reflection in the glass.


Going for an MPO performance tonight. Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.