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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
north star
she says we'll find
a way
-- Joe McKeon
(Originally published in Frogpond, summer, 2018)
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hosts : Sanjuktaa Asopa & Aparna Pathak
north star
she says we'll find
a way
-- Joe McKeon
(Originally published in Frogpond, summer, 2018)
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Thank you all for your lovely responses.
Sometimes we really need such positive poems, don't we?
Joe says only this:
The poem was written in acknowledgment of my wife. We have been married over 50 years and she has always been my compass through troubled times.
so positive , instils resilience
Love it. Reminds me of a one-line haiku I've on North Star:
North Star my grandpa's words long after
~
In a reality of constant change, to be aware of something that 'stays constant' to our eye is a powerful thing if we reflect on it.
Joe's poem is filled with a mix of melancholy, resignation and hope. One could imagine what one went through to come to the resignation "we'll find a way", especially when you think they had to look at an impossibly distant celestial object to reshape their perspective and sort of come to terms with something big.
This is a real gem.