Concise, emotional, powerful

 “The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.” – Robert Creeley

 

Born in Arlington, MA on May 21, 1926 (he died in 2005) Creeley authored more than 60 books of poems and one novel.  Widely recognized as one of the most important and influential American poets of the 20th century, he wrote poems noted for their concision and emotional power.   Winner of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, he also received the Robert Frost Medal and the Bollingen Prize and was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.   For Saturday’s Poem, here are Creeley’s, 

Love Comes Quietly         and                       Oh No !

Love comes quietly,                                 If you wander far enough                           
finally, drops                                              you will come to it
about me, on me,                                      and when you get there
in the old ways.                                         they will give you a place to sit    

What did I know                                       for yourself only, in a nice chair.
thinking myself                                         And all your friends will be there
able to go                                                     with smiles on their faces,

alone all the way.                                     they will likewise all have places.