Wednesday, May 28, 2008

One art

This is a poem by someone called Elizabeth Bishop. It's called one art. It is about losing something you care about like love or someone you love. I didn't change it at all. What you see is the real thing. Here goes......

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
Hope you guys liked it. I certainly loved it. Took quite long to understand it though. I got it from a movie called In Her shoes. Really nice show. Well all for now. Bye!

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