It's that time again! Time for the Annual Brigid in Cyberspace Poetry Reading. It's also called the Brigid in the Blogosphere, or the Silent Poetry Reading since there will be no recitation, only you reading to yourself. There will be lots of you reading to yourselves but it won't make much sound. This is the Fourth Annual Brigid ... whatever and there are many participants. If you go to the comments of the linked post above you will find links to the blogs of other poetry lovers. Enjoy!
For my contribution I've got to stick with what works for me. In honor of the Celtic Goddess of Poetry (and other things) a poem by my favorite Celtic poet: William Butler Yeats.
THE CAT AND THE MOON
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
- THE cat went here and there
- And the moon spun round like a top,
- And the nearest kin of the moon,
- The creeping cat, looked up.
- Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
- For, wander and wail as he would,
- The pure cold light in the sky
- Troubled his animal blood.
- Minnaloushe runs in the grass
- Lifting his delicate feet.
- Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
- When two close kindred meet,
- What better than call a dance?
- Maybe the moon may learn,
- Tired of that courtly fashion,
- A new dance turn.
- Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
- From moonlit place to place,
- The sacred moon overhead
- Has taken a new phase.
- Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
- Will pass from change to change,
- And that from round to crescent,
- From crescent to round they range?
- Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
- Alone, important and wise,
- And lifts to the changing moon
- His changing eyes.
- And the moon spun round like a top,
I love this:)
Posted by: ambermoggie | February 02, 2009 at 11:00 AM
That is one of my favorite poems. Yay Yeats! Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: lanea | February 02, 2009 at 07:57 PM