A re-blog:

Originally written on: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 11:39pm. Title: Never know...

Danielle fell in love with a poet tonight!
Who would have thought, she never really even liked poetry that much.
But the book in the library was just so adorable she had to pick it up and see what was within the pages.
The man's name is William Packard. The book is called "voices/I hear/voices."
The strange, short poems he writes, she thinks, are absolutely intoxicating.
The brevity of the poems was what drew her in.
She could not put the book down, she finished in a mere 10 minutes.
But she knows that what is within the lines of his poems will extend throughout a lifetime, will stay with her for a lifetime, and what a lovely lifetime it seems.
And what a way this man had of reading her mind, putting some things she has thought into a tiny little book.
She didn't know that know that someone like this existed.
But she is quite content that someone like this does exist.

And now she will stop rambling on and quote the foreword of the book:

"Most of us don't hear voices; we hear noises, and try to overlook them. William hears voices and writes them down. And well that he does. The sounds in our heads, in some sense at least, comprise the meaning of our lives.....Read and listen to William's voices, if only as a way of beginning to hear your own."
-Robert Lax

And now she will quote four of William's short, beautiful poems (at least, she thinks they are beautiful):

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wander around
wondering what
will become of me

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the flower
now she
shrieks for love

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who will think
of us in
times to come

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dear god do
guide me as
i strike doubt down

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And reading them over now, they almost seem to have lost that spark. But she will remember what she felt in the first moment she read them, that sensation of: Fucking awesome, I think I am in love, with a poet; this must be what I have been waiting for.

*(and who knows why Danielle feels compelled to talk in 3rd person, but all that can be said is that she thinks it is quite fun! :) )