[New-Poetry] Philosopher/philosophy poems

[Anny Ballardini]

https://www.mertoninstitute.org/merton_prize_winners_2009.php

*The 2009 Thomas Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred*

*Wendell Berry, Judge


*
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:37 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Vision
>
>
> This place, which warned its own remoteness
> it would turn into a desert,
> still has a few trees left and a few blue tits in them,
> calling: thorn-in-the-ass, thorn-in-the-ass!
>
> They’re calling to the weary or apathetic human being
> who is out for a walk holding a book,
> and while wondering
> what’s for supper, he mumbles:
> “I’ve never thought like that or felt like that;
> I’ve never said this!”
>
> Socrates, reading Plato…
>
>
> —Vladimír Holan**
> *Mirroring: Selected Poems of Vladimir Holan*
> Translated by C.G. Hanzlicek & Dana Hábová
> (Wesleyan, 1982)
>
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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
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