Today's poem:
Nashville After Hours
- by Ada Limon
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/779528896629686272/nashville-after-hours?source=share
#poetry #AdaLimon #country #self #agency #buzz #vibe #insight #nashville
Today's poem:
Nashville After Hours
- by Ada Limon
https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/779528896629686272/nashville-after-hours?source=share
#poetry #AdaLimon #country #self #agency #buzz #vibe #insight #nashville
Dead Stars by Ada Limón
Out here, there’s a bowing even the trees are doing.
Winter’s icy hand at the back of all of us.
Black bark, slick yellow leaves, a kind of stillness that feels
so mute it’s almost in another year.
I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying.
We point out the stars that make Orion as we take out
the trash, the rolling containers a song of suburban thunder.
What were you wearing?
While Everything Else Was Falling Apart
Ada Limón
El deporte no suele entrar en los poemas con ninguna soltura. Aquí, una excepción.
#AdaLimón #poem #translation #traducción #traición #versionescaseras
Más poemas de este libro de Ada Limón, vertidos al castellano porque sí.
De nuevo por gusto y por la cara, otro poema de Ada Limón puesto provisionalmente en castellano este domingo tan lejos del mar.
Un poema de Ada Limón vertido al castellano en casa: por gusto y por la cara.
#poem #translation #poema #traduccion #traición #AdaLimon
EDIT: Una traducción no se termina nunca.
“Crackle”: The fifth derivative of position. #111Words #Derivatives #Position #AdaLimón #Poetry #Mathematics #Crackle #Snap #Pop https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/11/crackle-fifth-derivative-of-position.html
“and isn’t that enough?”
Plate Story: Channeling Ideas Into Inspiration
"... because Europa Clipper is a mission from one water world to another, the design/message should be related to water"
by Preston Dyches, space exploration storyteller at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/plate-story-channeling-ideas-inspiration-preston-dyches-mvyzc
#EuropaClipper #Europa #spacecraft #europaclippermission #Jupiter #moon #ocean #AdaLimón #poem #poet #earth #space #astrodon #science #technology #education #art #math #STEM #water #nasa #language #languages #words
a chorus we could sing along to
Hell or High Water
Ada Limón
#Poetry #AdaLimón #TheNewYorker #HellOrHighWater #BlueMoon #MartyRobbins #LydiaMendoza #MalHombre #500Miles #TheCatCameBack
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/13/hell-or-high-water-ada-limon-poem
"Runaway Child by Ada Limón
The ocean was two things once, in two places, north it was the high
icy waves of Bodega Bay, Dillon, and Limantour, and south it was the blue ease
of Oceanside and Encinitas, umbrellas in a sleepy breeze.
It took me years to realize those two blues were the same ocean.
I thought they must be separate. Must be cleaved in the center by a fault line.
On a call just now with my grandmother she mentions how all the flowers
I've sent are from my garden, so I let her believe it. Sweet lies of the mind.
She says she's surprised I like to grow things, didn't think
I was that kind of girl, she always thought I was a runaway child.
She flicks her hand away, to show me her hand becoming a bird, swerving
until it is a white gull in the wind. She repeats: a runaway child.
Mercy is not frozen in time, but flits about frantically, unsure where to land.
As children, they'd bring us to the ocean, divorce distraction and summer,
we'd drift with the tide southward until we'd almost lose sight of them,
waving dramatically for our return, shouting until we came back to the shore.
Once, when she was watching us, I tried to run away, four or five years old,
and when I got to the end of the driveway, she didn't try to stop me. Even shut the door.
And so I came back. She knew what it was to be unloved, abandoned by her mother,
riding her bike by her father's house with his other children, late afternoons,
before her grandmother would call her home for supper. Some days, I think
she would have let me leave, some days I think of her shaking on the shore.
Now, she thinks all the flowers I've sent are from my garden. Grown
from seeds and tended. She gets a kick out of it, this runaway child
so overly loved, she could dare to drift away from it all."
— Ada Limon: Hurting Kind, pp. 68-70
#AdaLimón #LatinePoetry #California #SonomaCounty #PoetLaureate #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
"If I Should Fail by Ada Limón
The ivy eating the fence line, each tendril multiplying by green tendril, if I should fail the seeds lifted out and devoured by bristled marauders, blame only me and the strip of sun which bade me come to lie down snakelike on my belly, low snake energy, and be tempted by the crevices between the world and not world, if I should fail know I stared long into fractures and it seemed to me a mighty system of gaps one could slither into and I was made whole in that knowledge of a sleek nothingness."
— Ada Limon: Hurting Kind, p. 72
#AdaLimón #LatinePoetry #PoetLaureate #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
"We Are Surprised by Ada Limón
Now, we take the moon into the middle of our brains
so we look like roadside stray cats with bright flashlight-white eyes
in our faces, but no real ideas of when or where to run.
We linger on the field's green edge and say, Someday, son, none of this
will be yours. Miracles are all around. We're not so much homeless
as we are home-free, penny-poor, but plenty lucky for love and leaves
that keep breaking the fall. Here it is: the new way of living with the world
inside of us so we cannot lose it, and we cannot be lost. You and me
are us and them, and it and sky. It's hard to believe we didn't
know that before; it's hard to believe we were so hollowed out, so drained,
only so we could shine a little harder when the light finally came."
— Ada Limón: Bright dead things, pp. 42-43
#AdaLimón #LatinePoetry #PoetLaureate #TodaysPoem #Poetry #BookWyrm
I’ve only now become better at pretending
The Endlessness
Ada Limón
#Poetry #AdaLimón #TheNewYorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/09/11/the-endlessness-ada-limon-poem
La autora del poema que volará a bordo del Europa Clipper es Ada Limón
https://bit.ly/3Pc6xYR
#AdaLimon #europa #Júpiter #nasa #poetalaureado
“Sanctuary”
By Ada Limón
Suppose it’s easy to slip
into another’s green skin,
bury yourself in leaves
and wait for a breaking,
a breaking open, a breaking
out. I have, before, been
tricked into believing
I could be both an I
and the world. The great eye
of the world is both gaze
and gloss. To be swallowed
by being seen. A dream.
To be made whole
by being not a witness,
but witnessed.
Something inspirational by #AdaLimón #poetry
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000600044492
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, who is known for work that explores the human connection to the natural world, is crafting a new poem dedicated to NASA’s Europa Clipper mission.
Her poem will be engraved on the Europa Clipper spacecraft. It will travel 1.8 billion miles on its path to the Jupiter system.
#NASA #Clipper #AdaLimon #Jupiter #Poetry
Don’t read the one where you / are just like us.
The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual
Ada Limón