come may
THE LOCUST TREE IN FLOWERAmong
the leaves
bright
green
of wrist-thick
tree
and old
stiff broken
branch
ferncool
swaying
loosely strung—
come May
again
white blossom
clusters
hide
to spill
their sweets
almost
unnoticed
downand quickly
fall
Among
of
green
stiff
old
bright
broken
branch
come
white
sweet
May
again
William Carlos Williams
Samidare o atsumete hayashi Mogamigawa
The Mogami River, gathering rain of May and even more rapid
Matsuo Bashō
Labels: bashô, hiroshige ando, imagist poetry, poetry, theo van hoytema, william carlos williams
posted by lotusgreen at 4:30 PM
4 Comments:
ahhhhh ..... I love the work of William Carlos Williams .... the subtlety of a true word master!
Many consider his poetry to be rather simple minded (as though any 5 year old could paint a Jackson Pollock!)
I'm thrilled to see him do here in this poem what I LOVE to do with his work: to go back into the beginning stanzas and re-arrange words to expand the meaning of the entire work itself. He truly looks at the words 'themselves' - how they react sitting next to another; how they look; feel in the rhythm of voice.
beautiful post, lotus. thank you.
xx
lady blue
oh you add so much to the reading! thank you.
i was aware of the imagist poets, though not as such, but really had not read them in any depth, but as i began to learn of their relationship to japonisme i began to feature them here.
well I was thinking to post somehting on may, but now I might reconsider, yours is so beautiful :-)
oh, you must!
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