Poetry meme
Oct. 18th, 2004 11:31 amMy two favorites by Carl Sandburg:
The fog comes
on little cat feet
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
(Fog - 1916)
And this, even though it makes me sad:
The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie
sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone.
(IX. Haze, 5. Buffalo Dusk - 1922)
The fog comes
on little cat feet
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
(Fog - 1916)
And this, even though it makes me sad:
The buffaloes are gone.
And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how they pawed the prairie
sod into dust with their hoofs, their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,
Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
And the buffaloes are gone.
(IX. Haze, 5. Buffalo Dusk - 1922)