US chooses its Poet Laureate: Kay Ryan
Patience
by Kay Ryan
Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable—
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time's fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn't be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.
Kay Ryan is a poet worth discovering. I found her poetry and imagery witty and rich although she uses few words. Less is more, is her motto. But she does it such gracefully that her poem does not loose deeper meanings they are endowed with. Intact, without much words but with well-chosen verbs, adjectives, names she delves us ito another realm.
by Kay Ryan
Patience is
wider than one
once envisioned,
with ribbons
of rivers
and distant
ranges and
tasks undertaken
and finished
with modest
relish by
natives in their
native dress.
Who would
have guessed
it possible
that waiting
is sustainable—
a place with
its own harvests.
Or that in
time's fullness
the diamonds
of patience
couldn't be
distinguished
from the genuine
in brilliance
or hardness.
Kay Ryan is a poet worth discovering. I found her poetry and imagery witty and rich although she uses few words. Less is more, is her motto. But she does it such gracefully that her poem does not loose deeper meanings they are endowed with. Intact, without much words but with well-chosen verbs, adjectives, names she delves us ito another realm.
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