Poetry Project

For my poetry project I chose the theme simplicity. I know what you're thinking-- simplicity? What the heck do you mean by that? Well, I pretty much pick poetry that is simple. Easier said than done. I could choose it for a simple context or simple language. Pretty much all my poems are significantly different except for simplicity.

This is probably my favorite poem that I've found so far.

The Crippled Girl, The Rose

By David Ferry

It was as if a flower bloomed as if

Its muttering root and stem had suddenly spoken,

Uttering on the air a poem of summer,

The rose the utterance of its root and stem.

Thus her beautiful face, the crippled girl’s,

Was like the poem spoken by her body—

The richness of that face!—most generous

In what it keeps, giving in its having.

The rose reserves the sweetness that it yields,

Petal on petal, telling its own silence,

Her beauty saying from its thorny stalk

That what it is is kept as it is given.