Poet Jane Hirshfield said "... the feeling I have about poem-writing (is) that it is always an exploration, of discovering something I didn't already know. Who I am shifts from moment to moment, year to year. What I can perceive does as well. A new poem peers into mystery, into whatever lies just beyond the edge of knowable ground."
I bring a different poem to the writing classes each week, not only to inspire but to introduce new poets to the group members.
The Sound Of It by W.S. Merwin
The rain stopped you never hear it stop and then the dripping from the trees and then how could anyone hear it not falling not arriving and then not arriving other things must be happening that way unheard all around us you never hear the dog stop barking whether you are listening or not we hear things start up and go on calling and shrieking and singing saying hello saying good-bye but not stopping is that the way it is is there no sound of stopping and no sound to the sound of stopping then no sound without stopping ~ from Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press 2016)