tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17452407.post-71470063289591662132008-04-22T09:55:00.001-07:002008-12-09T10:33:05.896-08:00<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzB1zNihHIY/SA4YumlXnoI/AAAAAAAAAHM/fDH01wuJTfY/s1600-h/BUTFSHYB.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QzB1zNihHIY/SA4YumlXnoI/AAAAAAAAAHM/fDH01wuJTfY/s200/BUTFSHYB.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192114609315094146" border="0" /></a><br /> <p class="MsoBodyText">Ukiah Library Poem of the Day for National Library Month<br />April 22, 2008</p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">WANTING MORE AND MORE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: Tahoma;">TO LIVE UNOBSERVED, UNOBSERVING</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><br />Jane Hirshfield<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Wanting more and more to live unobserved,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">unobserving,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">like a dog who takes the bone and goes to another room<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">where it just fits under the low-legged table or couch.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">In the farthest depths, no sunlight reaches.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Yet certain fish, now eyeless streak with luminescence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">when<span style=""> </span>excited;<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">a lowered bathyspere turns on a floodlight<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">and is mobbed, the strange-formed bodies drawing in for miles.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">No one was ever meant to see this.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Certainly not the fish, who see nothing, whose<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">tentacles travel the cold light, and no one know how or why.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Like human beings to a mystery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">They imagine feels some passion for their fate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Tahoma;">And the dog? Fallen into the marrow-pleasure completely. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Willits Library National Library Month Poem of the Day April 22, 2008<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Special Earth Day Poem<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="">Philip Appleman<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I have to tell you this, whoever you are:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">that on one summer morning here, the ocean</p> <p class="MsoNormal">pounded in on tumbledown breakers,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">a south wind, bustling along the shore,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">whipped the froth into little rainbows,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">and a reckless gull swept down the beach</p> <p class="MsoNormal">as if to fly were everything it needed.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">I thought of your hovering saucers,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">looking for clues, and I wanted to write this down,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">so it wouldn’t be lost forever – </p> <p class="MsoNormal">that once upon a time we had</p> <p class="MsoNormal">meadows here, and astonishing things,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">swans and frogs and luna moths</p> <p class="MsoNormal">and blue skies that could stagger your heart.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We could have had them still,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">and welcomed you to earth, but</p> <p class="MsoNormal">we also had the righteous ones</p> <p class="MsoNormal">who worshipped the True Faith, and Holy War.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">When you go home to your shining galaxy,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">say that what you learned</p> <p class="MsoNormal">from this dead and barren place is </p> <p class="MsoNormal">to beware the righteous ones.</p> <br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/17452407-7147006328959166213?l=mendocinocountylibrary.blogspot.com'/></div>Staff of the Mendocino County Libraryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04659535804429631684noreply@blogger.com