<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410457" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Blue Swallows</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the millstream below the bridge <br>Seven blue swallows divide the air <br>In shapes invisible and evanescent, <br>Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind’s <br>Or memory’s power to keep them there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">“History is where tensions were,” <br>“Form is the diagram of forces.” <br>Thus, helplessly, there on the bridge, <br>While gazing down upon those birds— <br>How strange, to be above the birds!— <br>Thus helplessly the mind in its brain <br>Weaves up relation’s spindrift web, <br>Seeing the swallows’ tails as nibs <br>Dipped in invisible ink, writing… </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poor mind, what would you have them write? <br>Some cabalistic history <br>Whose authorship you might ascribe <br>To God? to Nature? Ah, poor ghost, <br>You’ve capitalized your Self enough. <br>That villainous William of Occam <br>Cut out the feet from under that dream <br>Some seven centuries ago. <br>It’s taken that long for the mind <br>To waken, yawn and stretch, to see <br>With opened eyes emptied of speech <br>The real world where the spelling mind <br>Imposes with its grammar book <br>Unreal relations on the blue <br>Swallows. Perhaps when you will have <br>Fully awakened, I shall show you <br>A new thing: even the water <br>Flowing away beneath those birds <br>Will fail to reflect their flying forms, <br>And the eyes that see become as stones <br>Whence never tears shall fall again. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">O swallows, swallows, poems are not <br>The point. Finding again the world, <br>That is the point, where loveliness <br>Adorns intelligible things <br>Because the mind’s eye lit the sun.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410457" data-title="The Blue Swallows de Howard Nemerov" data-description="Across the millstream below the bridge Seven blue swallows divide the air In shapes invisible and evanescent, Kaleidoscopic beyond the mind’s Or memory’s power to keep them there. “History is where tensions were,” “Form is the dia..."></div> </div> </div>

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