[lit-ideas] Postcards at the bottom of the hill
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:28:24 -0800
Why do we go to the top
To look and take photographs
When there are much better
Ones, professionally done,
In the shop at the bottom
Of the hill? Why write
More poems saying
The same things others
Have said and sing the same
Songs over and over
As though there were
Nothing really new under
The sun and we
Would have it so?
Must we try
Our hand to see
How well we do?
We surely aren't
Seeking something
Entirely new which
May be unthinkable.
Drawing our pictures
Inward is the way
To see however much
We can make of the view
That we might see
And know and only
Incidentally tell.
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