The Blackbird

Wallace Stevens wrote the most WONDERFUL poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird....this is my favorite snipet from it:

I know noble accents
and lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

It is one of the most beautiful poems about Blackbirds that I've ever read. I am partial to the crow...have many of them (all friends!) come to eat at my front door every morning, and I have a great respect for them. Most people I've met, don't. Yes, they are big and black...oooo...and popular culture has shown them to be harbingers of evil, but that is so far from the truth of what these noble birds are all about.

Well, this blog isn't about much except that I wanted to share this snipet from my favorite poem. I'm tired today and not inclined to much thought. I just wanted to appreciate something I consider beautiful today.

I hope you find beauty in ALL creation...not just the cute, fluffy, chirpy birds!