10.08.2011

April and Silence

Even though it's not now April, this
poem resonated with me. It's by the
new Nobel-Prize-winning poet,
Tomas
Tranströmer.









Spring lies deserted.

The velvet-dark ditch

crawls by my side without reflections.

All that shines

are yellow flowers.

I’m carried in my shadow

like a violin in its black case.

The only thing I want to say

gleams out of reach

like the silver

in a pawnshop.

1 comment:

  1. Elaine,

    This evokes the dark feeling of lack of inspiration, whatever the season. I love the imagery.

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