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Adams Morgan, Art, Bascove, Literature, poetry, Washington DC
If you ask me abruptly
Why write poetry
Why not do
Something useful
Then I won’t know
How to answer you
I am like a goldsmith hammering day and night
Just so I can extend pain
Into a gold ornament as thin as a cicada’s wing
I don’t know if working so hard
To transform sorrows into
Shimmering words and phrases
Is also
Beautifully worthwhile.
~XI Murong
Not too long ago I visited Idle Time Books in Adams Morgan, Washington DC. There I found this awesome book Where Books Fall Open by Bascove. In it you’ll find a beautiful collection of poems (such as Poetry’s Value), prose and pictures dedicated to the devoted reader and writer. Below is one of the pictures I took during my visit.
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nice poem
indeed, thanks for stopping by!
Lovely poem. Words give us so much of our ancient history. Most history, apart from in sculpture on stone, comes through in poetry. Without it, I would be lost. Thanks for the visit and the link back to me. The photograph you took is fabulous!
Let yourself become living poetry. ~Rumi
Thank you..I’m still in amateur stage with my new dslr..every now and then i catch an interesting shot. 🙂
Thank you for this thought-provoking and emotion-evoking post, Shantelle.
Russ