Your poem awakened in me happy memories of my year (1960-61) in Kobenhavn. I find myself on tiptoe reaching upward to get at the meaning of the metaphors in your poem.
I love Pedro's comment!! And the poem- as we in northern hemisphere are descending into solsice dark time - I was turning dour/ reflective - i read Pedro' s comment We could we wake up again- we can All arise into a New World Danish Order of Social Structure- Yippee!!
Great poem! Here you have a poem about happiness in Kobenhavn, by Morten Søndergaard:
Denmark is the happiest country, Denmark
has the happiest paratroopers and artillery
bottle pickers and butchers and drummers and keepers,
the happiest social workers, the happiest suicides,
the happiest hard of hearing, pilots, janitors, politicians,
priests, pedophiles, the happiest consumers of antidepressants.
In Denmark you have the happiest orgasms and there are
the happiest kisses. Denmark has the happiest weather forecasts.
Denmark has the happiest whores, lottery winners, the
happier
below the poverty line, cancer patients
happier,
the happiest divorces, Denmark has the happiest poets
the happiest insane, Denmark has the happiest
unhappy.
"The happiest unhappy." What a hoot.
My favorite poet Jack Gilbert. 🙏👍❤️
Your poem awakened in me happy memories of my year (1960-61) in Kobenhavn. I find myself on tiptoe reaching upward to get at the meaning of the metaphors in your poem.
See the Icarus post in my substack from last week.
I love Pedro's comment!! And the poem- as we in northern hemisphere are descending into solsice dark time - I was turning dour/ reflective - i read Pedro' s comment We could we wake up again- we can All arise into a New World Danish Order of Social Structure- Yippee!!
Loved this.... And it resonates!
I LOVE this SO much!!! Thank you!!!
Gilbert is really something. A master. Thank you for this.
"Learning to flower by tightening" That's so interesting! One usually thinks of flowers unfolding. 💐