pickGives the sensation of floating pleasantly, awash in nature imagery. Hints of melancholy throughout.
I'm probably projecting a nostalgia for a country upbringing based on my own childhood, but it was a beautiful kind of ache to be reminded of. You can't go back, but you can chose to treasure the memories.
?️? "...the sound of good rain." ?
Every moment of incomprehension in poetry is worth those rare moments, when the words completely recreate, resurrect, a feeling you didn't know how to put into words.
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#Secrete
Read the entire poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56195/darwin
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#Lyric
This poem is a good example of the lyric form.
A lyric poem is a (usually short) poem detailing the thoughts or feelings of the poem‘s speaker. Originally, lyric poems, as the name suggests, were sung and accompanied by the lyre, a stringed instrument not unlike a harp.
