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Poet: Jack Gilbert
Poem: Divorce
Volume: Views of Jeopardy
Year: Published/Written in 1962
Comment 4 of 4, added on January 14th, 2007 at 2:00 PM.
First of all what are you people smoking? The whole point is emptiness and not in a zen way--there is no Wallace ironical hedonism or lao tuz peace. Have you ever suffered trauma but been so hurt your equilibrium refused the present and insisted on shoving the tranquility of the past--minus what ever was the problem between them--into the future right over the bare intolerable facts? The crying, not hers or his but the moan of a broken heart. The dark and evidently cold empty house. The moon unbroken by any one onto the concrete--the hard facts, the big empty.
Rick Penkwitz from United States
Comment 3 of 4, added on May 1st, 2006 at 11:46 AM.
A nice way of just saying, "Things are what they are." A better poet wrote, "Let be be finale of seem."
john from United States
Comment 2 of 4, added on September 8th, 2005 at 12:44 AM.
Nothing is more beautiful than awakening to the truths of your own life, even if it happens with a jolt!!
shikha from India
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First of all what are you people smoking? The whole point is emptiness and not in a zen way--there is no Wallace ironical hedonism or lao tuz peace. Have you ever suffered trauma but been so hurt your equilibrium refused the present and insisted on shoving the tranquility of the past--minus what ever was the problem between them--into the future right over the bare intolerable facts? The crying, not hers or his but the moan of a broken heart. The dark and evidently cold empty house. The moon unbroken by any one onto the concrete--the hard facts, the big empty.
Rick Penkwitz from United States