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Poems That Move You

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After all the harangues, the children hawking baubles, the young men with hard-luck stories and health dramas, it is a relief when the poets come down the aisle of the Buenos Aires subway trains. They are soft-spoken if they even speak at all. They are well but simply dressed. Perhaps they wear their hair tied […]

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6 responses to “Poems That Move You”

  1. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    Wow Kevin! What a beautiful short story! Keep them coming. They are amazing.

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  2. Maraya Avatar
    Maraya

    As a poet who typically doesn’t go out of her way to read poetry, I can relate. But, when there’s something to be made a fuss about, I want in on it. When an intimate connection is made through language, it’s thrilling. I’m curious about what you thought about the poetry once you’d read it — since you would have a different perspective from the average reader. Beautiful vignette as always.

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  3. Mahlena Borges Avatar
    Mahlena Borges

    How can a poet not to be moved by poetry ?

    Maybe Fernando Pessoa can answer in his Autopsicography:

    The poet is a faker
    Who’s so good at his act
    He even fakes the pain
    Of pain he feels in fact.

    And those who read his words
    Will feel in his writing
    Neither of the pains he has
    But just the one they’re missing.

    And so around its track
    This thing called the heart winds,
    A little clockwork train
    To entertain our minds.

    © 1931, Fernando Pessoa (himself)
    From: Poesia
    Publisher: Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2006
    ISBN: 972-37-1072-2

    © Translation: 2006, Richard Zenith
    From: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
    Publisher: Penguin, New York, 2006, 0-14-303955-5

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  4. Kerry Avatar
    Kerry

    Very evocative, and a great ending. Now *I* want to read these poems! Though I wonder if they would move me. Those that do possess a rare alchemy. Still, the search continues.

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