As a response to reading Arthur Sze's "The Ginkgo Light," my professor recommended thus: "think about what the poems show that he values and avoids in his poems. These can be formal things, methods, kinds of diction, values, ideas about Beauty (or beauty), subject matter--whatever you notice. What do you suppose he would say a poet should and should not do?" My response is the following poem:
Chrysanthemum Reach
Envision. Enrapture.
Recall, remember, recite in fragments.
Introspect on observation.
Ignore nature, not.
The natural permeates all.
Acknowledge a duality of life.
Everything holds weight-
Nature, the manmade
Experience, interpretation, pain
Beauty, suffering, healing.
Experiences envelope, envelope experiences.
Do not fail to acknowledge, notice
Parallelisms
Succession of life
Momentary deliberateness
You say, “I am happiest here, now.”
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