"Every stranger's tolerance for poetry is compromised by much more important demands on his or her time. Therefore, I try to honor my reader's patience and generosity by presenting what I have to say as clearly and succinctly as possible .... Also, I try not to insult the reader's good sense by talking down; I don't see anything to gain by alluding to intellectual experiences that the reader may not have had. I do what I can to avoid being rude or offensive; most strangers, understandably, have a very low tolerance for displays of pique or anger or hysteria. Being harangued by a poet rarely endears a reader. I am also extremely wary of over cleverness; there is a definite limit to how much intellectual showing off a stranger can tolerate."- Ted Kooser Midwest Quarterly, 1999
*** ang susunod na tula'y mula kay Ted Kooser at nagandahan ako sa imahen na kanyang iprinisinta:
Flying at Night
Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug with bright streets at lonely lights like his.
*** isa pang tula mula sa kanya:
A Happy Birthday
This evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride this day down into night,
to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand.
ang alam ko nung nag-birthday ako nasa opisina lang ako. nag-ooverworked. ang tula ni ted kooser ang nagpaalala sa akin na masarap magpahinga kung kaarawan mo. tama siya, bubunuin mo lang ang buong araw sa pagbabasa, ika nga kapag tumatanda ka you gain wisdom/knowledge. para kay kooser, mainam na simulan ang iyong panibagong taon sa pagpapayaman nang nilalaman at magsisimula yan sa pagbuklat ng libro.
*** last na tula mula kay Kooser:
At the Cancer Clinic
She is being helped toward the open door
that leads to the examining rooms
by two young women I take to be her sisters.
Each bends to the weight of an arm
and steps with the straight, tough bearing
of courage. At what must seem to be
a great distance, a nurse holds the door,
smiling and calling encouragement.
How patient she is in the crisp white sails
of her clothes. The sick woman
peers from under her funny knit cap
to watch each foot swing scuffing forward
and take its turn under her weight.
There is no restlessness or impatience
or anger anywhere in sight. Grace
fills the clean mold of this moment
and all the shuffling magazines grow still.
*** wish kong makanap ng ilan sa kanyang mga libro. dapat isama sa wish lists ko yan:
Official Entry Blank. (1969).
Grass County. (1971).
Twenty Poems. (1973).
A Local Habitation and a Name. (1974).
Not Coming to Be Barked At. (1976).
Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems. (1980).
One World at a Time. (1985).
The Blizzard Voices. (1986).
Weather Central. (1994).
A Book of Things. (1995).
Riding with Colonel Carter. (1999).
Winter Morning Walks: One Hundred Postcards to Jim Harrison. (2001).
Delights and Shadows. (2004).
Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps. (2004).
Flying At Night : Poems 1965-1985. (2005).
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets. (2005).
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