Daily Sip - The Hurricane

The Hurricane

The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it said, go to it.

William Carlos Williams

I need a time machine ASAP to marry WCW and his chickens.

Much comfort in knowing it does not end when it ends.

It's interesting to see how people can have totally different reactions to a poem, even when the poem is... what... 19 words long?

The shorter a poem is, the more is left to the imagination( if the words are chosen well) That allows for people to have very different reactions/ interpretations to the verse.

Take a Haiku/ Senryu for example, so much can be said in so few words....

Say I were to change the poem above into a Haiku like this:

The Hurricane

Atop the garage
lay the stretched, uprooted tree
giant slain by the wind

Even fewer words, but you can make a whole story around it.

Yes. I kind of like it when things aren't explicitly spelled out.

Me too, it is more challenging to the brain:)

I thought so as well sib, cause unlike Brit, I did not find this to be depressing at all.. I found humor in it..
lol seriously..and when I saw Brit's comment I was like...

HM..really:/ ?
:P

EDIT:
and this too (Y) :

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don' cut them, I pleaded.
They won't last, she said.
But they're so beautiful
where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she said,
and cut them and gave them to me
in my hand.

by William Carlos William

Maybe mood counts :P perhaps... lol

I thought it was sad, too... but more in a bitter, wry way than in a depressing way.

Do you think someone even necessarily died in the poem?

The language is so languid... a hurricane is violent and powerful, and yet the tree "lay down and stretched."

Actually that's were I saw the sarcasm but maybe I am reading it in a different way (completely)

edit:
but now as i read what you guys are saying..
maybe it sounds like

You have a place to go to after death , being humans and have a certain value.. but the tree got no where to go to? like hmm okay this is BS what am saying.lol.

"You have a place to go to after death , being humans and have a certain value.. but the tree got no where to go to? "

That's kind of what I was thinking, too.

It could also explain why there are leaves in my gutter if the trees have their minds on their nuts.

This poem blows my mind. Good choice, Sib.

Maybe it will inspire other poems that blow

Not your taste, Mike?

Just joking. I liked the poem but hurricanes do blow

Lol <3mike