Rediscovery

Still feeling time being grinded out by work and everything and anything.

I guess everyone has a notion or definition of what literature should or could be, but I would put it as something that goes from objective to subjective as you delve and immerse in it. So much depends on you relating to what you read and using imagination of the mind to recapture that moment of inner most thought by the author.

And truly enough, poetry is the most intensive and 'immense' in language use. It's pretty much like a photograph that effects the pictum upon the reader. And the beautiful thing about poetry I guess, is that each time you read it again, it offers you new insight and creates new meaning. Yes, it is subjective in a sense that the interpretation is about yourself and how you relate to the experience or perception the poem offers


The Secret
Denise Levertov

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all.