Just A Poet

Separation
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
W.S Merwin

At this time of year, I try to acknowledge my thankfulness, OUT LOUD!!!!
Yesterday, homemade vegetable soup, caused me to Holler!!!
The November sunshine, touched my body and soul.
But...this man's poem, Separation, made me pause.
Bill's mag, Princeton Alumni Weekly, had on it's cover, this handsome gentleman. Yes, lust first, then content!!! The title, The Nation's Poet, pulled me closer.
W. S. Merwin, I have never heard of him. So I read, he has been described as a poet who " leads us upstream from the flow of everyday things in life to half hidden headwaters of wisdom about life itself." 82 in years, people label him as a maverick and a misfit!! When so many people live on the hem of the world, he wanted to be IN this world. No cell phones, or e-mail, he says that he likes to be conscious of the act of writing. Also, he stopped using punctuation around 1960. I love him. A Pulitzer prize winner, in 71, a Zen Buddhist who believes that no single entity is more significant than another, he describes himself as "Just A Poet."
I think there are so many layers to turn back.
He moved to Maui, and planted a twenty acre palm forest, by hand, in 1976!
Interesting people find a way to cross my path, I confess to always looking for them.
Mr. Merwin's poetry and story, made the top of my November Thankful List, vegetable soup second!!!!
Take the time to read his works.