<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447884" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prosody 101</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When they taught me that what mattered most<br>was not the strict iambic line goose-stepping<br>over the page but the variations<br>in that line and the tension produced<br>on the ear by the surprise of difference,<br>I understood yet didn't understand<br>exactly, until just now, years later<br>in spring, with the trees already lacy<br>and camellias blowsy with middle age,<br>I looked out and saw what a cold front had done<br>to the garden, sweeping in like common language,<br>unexpected in the sensuous<br>extravagance of a Maryland spring.<br>There was a dark edge around each flower<br>as if it had been outlined in ink<br>instead of frost, and the tension I felt<br>between the expected and actual<br>was like that time I came to you, ready<br>to say goodbye for good, for you had been<br>a cold front yourself lately, and as I walked in<br>you laughed and lifted me up in your arms<br>as if I too were lacy with spring<br>instead of middle aged like the camellias,<br>and I thought: so this is Poetry!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Linda+Pastan">Linda Pastan</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=447884" data-title="Prosody 101 de Linda Pastan" data-description="When they taught me that what mattered most was not the strict iambic line goose-stepping over the page but the variations in that line and the tension produced on the ear by the surprise of difference, I understood yet didn't understand exactly, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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