Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Wisława Szymborska
Szymborska demonstrates her fondness of the theme universality with this poem, another from the collection View with a Grain of Sand.
The title itself can use a moment to analyze. Use of the word ‘nonexistent’ brings about questions about whether this expedition never happened, or if someone just d...
So these are the Himalayas.
Mountains racing to the moon.
The moment of their start recorded
on the startling, ripped canvas of the sky.
Holes punched in a desert of clouds.
Thrust into nothing.
Echo - a white mute.
Quiet.
Yeti, down there we've got Wednesday,
bread and alphabets.
Two times two is four.
Roses are red there,
and violets are blue.
Yeti, crime is not all
we're up to down there.
Yeti, not every sentence there
means death.
We've inherited hope -
the gift of forgetting.
You'll see how we give
birth among the ruins.
Yeti, we've got Shakespeare there.
Yeti, we play solitaire
and violin. At nightfall,
we turn lights on, Yeti.
Up here it's neither moon nor earth.
Tears freeze.
Oh Yeti, semi-moonman,
turn back, think again!
I called this to the Yeti
inside four walls of avalanche,
stomping my feet for warmth
on the everlasting
snow.