Mark Strand

[client2t.livejournal.com]

In a field
I am the absence
of field...

This is always
the case.

Wherever I am
I am what is missing...

We all have reasons
for moving,

I move
to keep things whole.

Comments

[shechoselove.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh. This is so short, but it packs such a punch.

[stefan11.livejournal.com]

Co-signed!

It's like a series intertwined haiku. Awesome, indeed.

[ex-assemble.livejournal.com]

How bizarre - just this morning I was hoping someone would post this poem in this community. Thank you!

[nerak-g.livejournal.com]

This poem is my motto

[ann-septimus.livejournal.com]

Wow. That definitely clanged in my chest this morning. Thank you.

[lilyoftheval5.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[mmmmallory.livejournal.com]

I like that

[gh0stmeat.livejournal.com]

this seems to be missing a strophe.
or is that what the ellipsis is for?

[pachamama.livejournal.com]

yes and s/he also cut the best bits! see below.

[zxinkle.livejournal.com]

just beautiful.

[pachamama.livejournal.com]

There is a massive amount missing. The correct text of the poem follows below. client2t can you explain why you edited the poem? Although the ellipses indicate where the words are removed, it is unclear to me why such edited occurred and for what purpose. In a forum which is meant to present great poems, there might be a justification for presenting an excerpt of a single section from a poem sequence, for example, but this kind of editing is against the spirit of the forum and will result in this being removed if you neither justify the edit or correct it.

In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body's been.

We all have reasons
for moving.
I move
to keep things whole.

[gh0stmeat.livejournal.com]

there you go. nice to see it in its full glory.
it's not even a terribly long poem; i wonder why it was chopped up so cruelly.

From against the ropes I agree

[client2t.livejournal.com]

I reposted this work when I realized the version I had copied in my journal was incomplete - when I looked up the source text I was sufficiently chagrined. Oddly enough - when I re-posted the piece in it glorious entirety some other member replied that the forum was only to contain EXCERPTS and that entire poems are against the rules. I guess I can't please anyone - but you were right in calling me out. I was probably hammered when I copied the work into my journal originally - goes to show you should not drink and transcribe...

Sorry for the grevious affront to all - I hope it won't change your vote this November..

Kisses!

Client2t

Re: From against the ropes I agree

[gh0stmeat.livejournal.com]

haha! yr nice. (:
& i'm pretty sure whole poems don't break any rules if they're behind an lj cut.