<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=517682" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Poem That Comes From Hearing The Poem Of Another</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem that comes from hearing the poem of another<br>And tries to ride on its rhythm<br>Like the sea on its own waves-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A forced music finding nowhere in itself a music of its own <br>Because all the poems are melodies made light by more light <br>As all the poems are dreams made dreamlike by more dreaming-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we in our poetic fervor hearing that lyric sound <br>Go round and round again and again <br>As if we were the music of the stars<br>When the universe empirically spherical –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now in this more deeply instrumented time, <br>When what we see with our eyes is always less than what we measure <br>Time and Time again tells us that Space and Space again tell us <br>That all we are in this long distance darkness<br>Is one small point of light which in its own sad way will fade out before its music endures-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the stars have only our imagined music <br>and not more than the light <br>of their own violent dying –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So here having heard the poem of another <br>And open to my own inner voice, <br>I cry and cry again for another sky and another music <br>That only God Who is Beyond these earthly hapless sounds<br>Can Dream and Feel and Know <br>In the Lyric Ending that justifies our home.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Shalom+Freedman">Shalom Freedman</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=517682" data-title="The Poem That Comes From Hearing The Poem Of Another de Shalom Freedman" data-description="The poem that comes from hearing the poem of another And tries to ride on its rhythm Like the sea on its own waves- A forced music finding nowhere in itself a music of its own Because all the poems are melodies made light by more light As all t..."></div> </div> </div>

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