[Vision2020] "To The New Year" by U.S. Poet Laureate William S.Merwin

[lfalen]

Not bad, lets have more poetry.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:52:21 -0800
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] "To The New Year" by U.S. Poet Laureate William S.Merwin

> University of Arizona President Robert Shelton read the following W.S.
> Merwin poem at today's (January 12, 2011) memorial event concerning the
> January 8 tragedy in Tucson.
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> "To the New Year"
> 
> With what stillness at last
> you appear in the valley
> your first sunlight reaching down
> to touch the tips of a few
> high leaves that do not stir
> as though they had not noticed
> and did not know you at all
> then the voice of a dove calls
> from far away in itself
> to the hush of the morning
> 
> so this is the sound of you
> here and now whether or not
> anyone hears it this is
> where we have come with our age
> our knowledge such as it is
> and our hopes such as they are
> invisible before us
> untouched and still possible
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 
> An excellent, and appropriate, poem
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "People turn to poetry in times of crisis because it comes closer than any
> other art form to addressing what cannot be said."
> 
> - W. S. Merwin
> 
> 
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