WHAT STAYS WITH YOU LATEST AND DEEPEST?
This week I read UNBROKEN by Laura Hillenbrand.
It's an excellent book, and as is often the case with excellent books, I found poetry in those pages -- starting with the epigraph that opens the book, which is taken from an actual poem:
What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
- Walt Whitman, "The Wound-Dresser"
(complete poem here)
It's a great question, isn't it?
I think every poem we write should answer that question.
For more poetic thoughts and verse, visit Poetry Friday Roundup with David at FOMOGRAMS.
It's an excellent book, and as is often the case with excellent books, I found poetry in those pages -- starting with the epigraph that opens the book, which is taken from an actual poem:
What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics,
Of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?
- Walt Whitman, "The Wound-Dresser"
(complete poem here)
It's a great question, isn't it?
I think every poem we write should answer that question.
For more poetic thoughts and verse, visit Poetry Friday Roundup with David at FOMOGRAMS.
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