Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Starting out

Rumi reminds us that often we try to drink from a cup even when we are standing under a waterfall.  So how can I begin to say anything, anything at all, about art and life? These topics are way bigger than me. But maybe that's my point, and where I can start.

I drink from a very small cup, I know. I'm just glad I get to taste the richness of life at all. When Billy Collins edited Poetry 180 he presented a reading list for American high school students. But I find the poems rich and inviting for me, here in my 40's. Check out his instructions on how to read a poem ... Poetry 180 - Introduction to Poetry. Do you agree? Would you read a poem like a plate of spaghetti or like an interrogation?