Moore's poem keeps coming back to me precisely because of that paradox at its center: freedom found through surrender, strength drawn from acknowledging limits. The image of the sea in a chasm is one of the most compact and honest descriptions of what it means to persist under constraint. Thank you for sharing this one.
That connection to Ali is something I hadn't thought about before. Two people who both understood discipline and courage in very different arenas. Moore saw something in him worth writing down, and that says a lot about both of them.
I once almost had a Great Encounter with Rev Jesse Jackson but my personal favorite at the Juice Bar State St - Captain Kangaroo
Moore's poem keeps coming back to me precisely because of that paradox at its center: freedom found through surrender, strength drawn from acknowledging limits. The image of the sea in a chasm is one of the most compact and honest descriptions of what it means to persist under constraint. Thank you for sharing this one.
Marianne Moore also spent a day hanging out with the Great Muhammad Ali, and wrote him a poem.
That connection to Ali is something I hadn't thought about before. Two people who both understood discipline and courage in very different arenas. Moore saw something in him worth writing down, and that says a lot about both of them.
I need to read more of her poems in the future.
immediately I thought ... What ? Dog years?
and then does this count as a Haiku Zthought?