Journal Seven from Dathan

The two places that I look through the most were...
The Poetry Foundation
and
Web del sol

I liked The Poetry Foundation better. It was mostly because of the set up of the sites themselves. The Poetry Foundation seemed to have a better arrangement of things and Web del sol seemed to at least look cheaper, less user friendly, like it had more adds. They both had a good catalog of poems, you can really get lost.

How Quiet

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BY JUDITH HARRIS

How quiet is the spruce,

the wind twills

through the uppermost tier

of splayed leaves.

Now the song of a bird

like the squeaky lock

over a canoe's oar,

followed by startling chirps,

the sky pushing its clouds

like sailboats,

and I think, what kind of God

keeps himself secret

so that to find him out

we have to seek, as children do

for something like the beetle

scuttling between grass,

hidden in plain sight.

I chose this poem because when I read it I saw a nice image in my head. It was like I was in a canoe on a slow flowing river surrounded by trees. It does sound a little stupid when I put it that way, but if it sounds completely stupid to you then you have never gone canoeing.