Comments on: Walt Whitman - Who goes there? (from Song of Myself) http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/ Sacred Poetry from Around the World Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:45:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Ivan M. Granger http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-386 Ivan M. Granger Sat, 31 May 2008 00:30:10 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-386 Susie, Whitman has influenced me for a long time but, you know, every poem I ever wrote in something like his style never felt like my own poem. And, as you said, it was never as good. :-) Guess we'll have to let the old man whisper in our ears, but we'll transcribe it in our own hand and style. Ivan Susie,
Whitman has influenced me for a long time but, you know, every poem I ever wrote in something like his style never felt like my own poem. And, as you said, it was never as good. :-) Guess we’ll have to let the old man whisper in our ears, but we’ll transcribe it in our own hand and style.
Ivan

]]> By: Ivan M. Granger http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-385 Ivan M. Granger Sat, 31 May 2008 00:27:17 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-385 Maura, I have to admit that I haven't heard of the Korean poet Ko Un, but there is a lot I still yearn to explore in Asian poetry. Thanks for the suggestion. Bitten by a mosquito. Some part of me is carried into the summer night. Ivan Maura,
I have to admit that I haven’t heard of the Korean poet Ko Un, but there is a lot I still yearn to explore in Asian poetry. Thanks for the suggestion.
Bitten by a mosquito.
Some part of me is carried
into the summer night.
Ivan

]]> By: Susie http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-378 Susie Thu, 29 May 2008 16:17:42 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-378 What a wonderful poem, Ivan! Thanks a lot for remembering Walt Whitman. I loved his poems long before I knew anything of spirituality or mysticism. I would hope that my innocence of not knowing could very well be reflected by his but I doubt that! I never wrote such a magnificent poem, LOL. He says it all with such elloquence. Love, Susie What a wonderful poem, Ivan! Thanks a lot for remembering Walt Whitman. I loved his poems long before I knew anything of spirituality or mysticism. I would hope that my innocence of not knowing could very well be reflected by his but I doubt that! I never wrote such a magnificent poem, LOL.

He says it all with such elloquence.

Love,
Susie

]]> By: Maura http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-371 Maura Wed, 28 May 2008 19:32:44 +0000 http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2008/05/28/walt-whitman-who-goes-there-from-song-of-myself/#comment-371 Thank you for including Whitman. He figured it out by himself--that all things in the universe are in their own way beautiful and each is part of life as it is, as we find it. We make distinctions and judgments based on such arbitrary standards. I wonder if you have looked into the poetry of the Korean poet Ko Un. He was a Buddhist monk for many years and his poems reflect the compassion and capacity for observation and full experience that we associate with that religion. Here's a short one for the season: Mosquito Bitten by a mosquito. Thanks. wow, I'm still alive. Scratch. scratch. Thank you for including Whitman. He figured it out by himself–that all things in the universe are in their own way beautiful and each is part of life as it is, as we find it. We make distinctions and judgments based on such arbitrary standards.

I wonder if you have looked into the poetry of the Korean poet Ko Un. He was a Buddhist monk for many years and his poems reflect the compassion and capacity for observation and full experience that we associate with that religion. Here’s a short one for the season:

Mosquito

Bitten by a mosquito.
Thanks.
wow, I’m still alive.
Scratch. scratch.

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