Wednesday 3 February 2016

Snowdrop Reverie



Snowdrop - Louise Gluck

Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know
what despair is; then
winter should have meaning for you.

I did not expect to survive,
earth suppressing me. I didn't expect
to waken again, to feel
in damp earth my body
able to respond again, remembering
after so long how to open again
in the cold light
of earliest spring--

afraid, yes, but among you again
crying yes risk joy

in the raw wind of the new world.

2 comments:

  1. My Faceook told me earlier today that on this day last year, you linked me to a (different) Snowdrop poem...what are the odds?! Love this one - Louise Gluck's flower-poems are some of my favourites. Obsessed with nature poems at the moment - have you read any Alice Oswald? I could read her all day every day.

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    1. Ha, the coincidence! I think that previous Snowdrop poem was by Alice Oswald. I love her poetry so much, her style is so unique. Trouble is I can't find enough of it!

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