~~~Gratitude~~~

POETRY

Robert Lax ~ Abstract Minimalist Poet ~ 1915 - 2000 

April is National Poetry Month!  April 18th Poem in Your Pocket Day!

I love poetry.  It has saved me time and time again.  When I was a teen and my life was pretty rugged I turned to poetry for comfort.  My first favorite was Robert Frost, it was funny too because I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.  I had never been to New England or cared to go.  Even so there was something in his poetry that resonated with me.  Part of it was nature but there was something more...who knows it may have been a pointer that my adult life was to be here in Maine.  

My first poetry book I ever owned...co 1972

I love the economy of poetry.  So much is said with fewer words.  I love the imagery that poetry invokes in my mind.  But my favorite thing is the way poetry looks on the page.  It is the blank space that surrounds a poem that I ador.  The blankness is like a breath before the poem is read.  The spaciousness around lines opens my heart to the message of a poem.  The most open poems I have come across where created by Robert Lax.  My beloved, most admired, maybe an obsession, personal favorite poet is Lax right now.

(I should own stock in posted notes!)

I have read everything I can get my hands on about this wonderful human BEing. This was a person full of love and possibly enlightened.  A humble sort that didn't get published much.  I am so grateful I love poetry -> which lead me to Robert Lax! 

My latest additions to my Lax collection

A favorite poem....

problem
in
design

what if 
you like 
to draw
big flowers,

but what
if some 
sage has 
told you 
that 
there is
nothing 
more beautiful

nothing 
more
beautiful

than a
straight
line
?

what should
you draw:
big flowers?
straight lines?

i think
you should
draw

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

big
flow
ers

un
til

they
be
co
me

a
str
ai
gh
t
l
i
n
e

i draw 

straight 

lines, 

said 

the young 

man, 

and think 

they are 

perfectly 

beautiful; 

but what 

can I 

draw now? 

straight 

lines, 

i said 

straight 

lines, 

straight 

lines 

until 

they 

disappear 

A link to 3 videos by Susanne Wiegner with the voice & poetry of Robert Lax

http://movingpoems.com/poet/robert-lax/

It is my intention, each Sunday, to share something that fills me with Gratitude. 

I write ~~~Gratitude~~~ with the wavy lines to represent the gratitude ENERGY~~~~~! 

I hope you will join me and share your gratitude moments. 

~~~Amen, Blessed Be, Namaste'~~~