The Self and the Mulberry
by Marvin Bell
I wanted to see the self, so I looked at the mulberry.
It had no trouble accepting its limits,
yet defining and redefining a small area
so that any shape was possible, any movement.
It stayed put, but was part of all the air.
I wanted to learn to be there and not there
like the continually changing, slightly moving
mulberry, wild cherry and particularly the willow.
Like the willow, I tried to weep without tears.
Like the cherry tree, I tried to be sturdy and productive.
Like the mulberry, I tried to keep moving.
I couldn’t cry right, couldn’t stay or go.
I kept losing parts of myself like a soft maple.
I fell ill like the elm. That was the end
of looking in nature to find a natural self.
Let nature think itself not manly enough!
Let nature wonder at the mystery of laughter.
Let nature hypothesize man’s indifference to it.
Let nature take a turn at saying what love is!
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Far Within Us #7 by Vasko Popa
- Robert Burns: Inscription: Written on the blank leaf of a copy of the last edition of my poems, presented to the Lady whom, in so many fictitious reveries of passion, but with the most ardent sentiments of real friendship, I have so often sung under the name of-“Chloris.”
- Karazah Karl
- Кондратий Рылеев – К Делии
- Robert Burns: Home.:
- Love’s Unity poem – Alfred Austin
- An Ode to Beer
- Book Fifth-Books by William Wordsworth
- Константин Батюшков – На поэмы Петру Великому
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet VII. To Solitude poem – John Keats poems
- Story of a Drunk by Violet Uram
- New York at Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Chinese Zodiac Signs
- Robert Burns: Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson:
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