Guest poem sent in by Nikhil Sethi
(Poem #1279) Untitled Star of my life, to the stars your face is turned; Would I were the heavens, looking back at you with ten thousand eyes. |
Comments :) does it really need any? Its just so simple and so beautiful that nothing I say about it can do it justice. (or so I feel about it). Regards Nikhil Sethi [Martin adds] Plato had a lot to say about poetry :). On the one hand, there's his famous quote "Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history" On the other hand, book 10 of his Republic contains an extended diatribe against poetry ("imitative poetry" to be precise), which he considers "thrice removed" from the truth, and rejected in his Ideal Republic: Of he many excellences which I perceive in the order of our State, there is none which upon reflection pleases me better than the rule about poetry. To what do you refer? To the rejection of imitative poetry, which certainly ought not to be received -- http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.11.x.html I think today's poem speaks more eloquently than any diatribe, though. [1] a fascinating document, by the way - the first time I read it, I was spellbound despite my initial reluctance to embark upon it
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