[New-Poetry] Philosopher/philosophy poems

[jforjames at aol.com]

You must be psychic, Anny. The next poem I was planning to post was by Thomas Merton, called "Duns Scotus." But I hadn't had time to type it out. 

I lived in Louisville KY for several years and Bellarmine College there has Thomas Merton center....
http://www.merton.org/

I wasn't familar with that Merton Institute or their poetry prize. 
Finnegan

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From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:12 am
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Philosopher/philosophy poems


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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