Poetry in the Wild by Robert Bliss https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w en-us 2020-10-02 15:47:27 UTC 2020-10-02 19:06:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798305247 Twenty minutes from my house, is Hollins Pond, where I like to go at sunset and sit on a tree trunk. The water lilies have blossomed and at one end of the pond, wild turtles lay eggs. Watching the lily pads at my feet, I was looking down at a weasel, who was looking up at me. Our look was as if two lovers, or deadly enemies, met unexpectedly: a clearing blow to the gut. He disappeared.


]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798305247 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798305789  A sweet and shocking time
uncollected, unconnected, loose leaf, and blown
I missed my chance to learn, or remember, how to live
To locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse
I would like to live as I should under the wild rose

]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798305789 Found poem ;) https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798306408 wild.
killing more bodies than he can eat.
a man shot, examined, the dry skull of a weasel fixed by the jaws to his throat.
 through the woods by the quarry and across the highway, 
I had cut down two lovers.
shattered his brain
We can live any way we want.



]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798306408 Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798306829 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go,
to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. Seize it and let it seize you up aloft even, till your eyes burn out and drop; let your musky flesh fall off in shreds, and let your very bones unhinge and scatter, loosened over fields, over fields and woods, lightly, thoughtless, from any height at all, from as high as eagles. 





]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798306829 poem that i found https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798307260 sleep
he lives in his den
two days without leaving
he was relaxed watching a yellow bird
he didn't see, stunned into stillness
he dissapeared, shattered, blinked
mind suddenly uncollected

]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798307260 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798307577 The sun had just set through the woods by the quarry,
It was a bright blow to the brain,
I missed my chance to learn, or remember, how to live,
This is, mind you suburbia, under every bush is a beer can. 
So I crossed the highway, to remember how to live, ]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798307577 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798307671 Who sleeps in his nose for days without leaving. warm home. 55 eggs cut down. And And And And Lizards. Our eyes twisted backwards into the woods.]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798307671 found poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798308332  Our eyes locked,  as if two lovers, or deadly enemies, met unexpectedly on an overgrown path:

A clearing blow to the gut. 
A bright blow to the brain.
If you and I looked at each other that way, our skulls would split and drop to our shoulders. But we don't. We keep our skulls. 
So.

We live in choice, hating necessity and dying at the last ignobly in its talons.
We could, you know. We can live any way we want. ]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798308332 weasel https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798308728 id never seen one in the wild before
stunned into stillness
our eyes locked and someone threw away the key
this is yeilding, not fighting 
seize it and let it seize you ]]> 2020-10-02 16:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798308728 found poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798309389 who knows what he thinks?
two black eyes
look
our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key
beating of brains
emptied lungs
skulls split
]]> 2020-10-02 16:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798309389 found poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798310855 Wild, stalks, killing...
What is he thinking?
To live, to learn, to remember.]]> 2020-10-02 16:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798310855 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798311049 through the woods
across the highway
Hollins Pond
six inches of water 
and six thousand lily pads
complete with miracle's nonchalance]]> 2020-10-02 16:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798311049 Accidental love https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798311539 When walking  through the woods by the quarry and across the highway
 I notice under every bush is a muskrat hole or a beer can
and the next instant, inexplicably, I was looking down at a weasel, who was looking up at me.
The weasel was stunned into stillness 
Our look was as if two lovers  met unexpectedly 
 It emptied our lungs 
I waited motionless, 
 my spirit with pleadings, but he didn't return.





]]> 2020-10-02 16:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798311539 found poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798312238 Weasel! I'd never seen one wild before
He was ten inches long, thin as a curve, a muscled ribbon
He had two black eyes I didn't see, any more than you see a window

]]> 2020-10-02 16:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798312238 poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798313886 crossed the highway
traced the motorcycle path
cut through the woods
tree is excellent
sun had just set]]> 2020-10-02 16:36:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798313886 Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798315489 for the throat
lunged for the weasel's chin and held on
through mud and into the wild rose
for a dearer life

]]> 2020-10-02 16:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798315489 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798315509 Hollins Pond, a remarkable piece of shallowness
near Tinker Creek with six inches of water and six thousand lily pads
a five-minute walk in three directions to rows of houses
I cut down through the woods to the mossy fallen tree where I sit
The sun had just set. I was relaxed on the tree trunk, ensconced in the lap of lichen
watching the lily pads at my feet tremble]]> 2020-10-02 16:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798315509 poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798315751 Two lovers,
deadly enemies,
met unexpectedly

a clearing blow
a bright blow
with charge and intimate grate

it felled the forest, 
drained the pond;
that black hole of eyes.]]> 2020-10-02 16:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798315751 Stare https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798317462 Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key
motionless
blank
separation
If you and I looked at each other that way, our skulls would split
Could two live that way?

]]> 2020-10-02 16:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798317462 Poetry in the Wild kbliss4 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798317822 The weasel felt the yank
of separation.
For a sweet and 
Shocking time 
Open to time and death 
Painlessly
I could very calmly 
Go wild. ]]> 2020-10-02 16:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798317822 found poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798319000 two lovers
deadly enemies
If you and I looked at each other that way, our skulls would split 
But we don't. 
We keep our skulls.]]> 2020-10-02 16:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798319000 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798320366 we live wild 
sometimes
woods stand in the middle of
suburbia 
could two live?
we could
we can]]> 2020-10-02 16:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798320366 my house https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798321861 my house is a remarkable piece of shallowness
where I like to go sit with six inches of water and six thousand lily pads with miracle's nonchalance
now gone to black leeches
this is suburbia
none is visible here
a nesting pair under every bush
a beer can
the far end is an 
alternating series of motorcycle tracks]]> 2020-10-02 16:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798321861 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798322477 The water lilies have blossomed
like miracle itself
I was looking down
Weasel!
Our look was as if two lovers or deadly enemies met unexcpectatly.
He disappeared
I missed my chance
I might have learned something of mindlessness
the purity of living without bias or motive]]> 2020-10-02 16:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798322477 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798324239 wild weasel
obedient to instinct
ten inches long
a muscled ribbon
brown as fruitwood
his face was fierce
deadly enemies
vanished under the wild rose]]> 2020-10-02 16:38:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798324239 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798324570 Weasel!
His face was fierce
[He] was stunned into stillness
I was stunned into stillness
He disappeared
I think I blinked
A weasel is wild]]> 2020-10-02 16:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798324570 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325573 A weasel is wild.
The weasel was stunned into stillness
He disappeared
What does a weasel think about?

]]> 2020-10-02 16:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325573 Found Poem https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325742 We could live any way we want
Seize life and let it seize you up aloft 
Grasp your one necessity and never let it go]]> 2020-10-02 16:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325742 Man https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325784 Thinks
Without leaving
Stubborn Shallowness
like miracle itself ]]> 2020-10-02 16:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325784 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325819 The sun had just set
I was looking down at a weasel
Our eyes locked
met unexpectedly on an overgrown path ]]> 2020-10-02 16:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798325819 Living kbliss4 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798326618 I would like to 
Remember 
How to Live ]]> 2020-10-02 16:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798326618 The Eagle https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798333036 A man shot an eagle out of the sky.
Through the woods by the quarry and across the highway, when the sun had just set.
I cut down through the wood, I had crossed the highway, and
I was stunned into stillness. 
Our eyes locked.
He disappeared. 
I remember muteness.

Time and events are merely poured, unremarked, from any height at all, from as high as the eagles.]]> 2020-10-02 16:41:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798333036 deadly enemies rkittredge3345 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798333783
suburbia: rows of houses, a 55-mph highway, and barbed-wire fences

the pond: water lilies, plodding blackbirds,, crayfish, and carp.

We felled the forest, moved the fields, and drained the pond; the world dismantled. 


]]> 2020-10-02 16:41:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798333783 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798335245 A weasel is wild.

He had two black eyes I didn't see, any more than you see a window.
Our eyes locked, and someone threw away the key.

He disappeared.
He vanished under the wild rose.
he didn't return.


What does a weasel think about?
He won't say. 
I would like to live as I should,
as the weasel lives as he should. 
A weasel doesn't "attack" anything;
a weasel lives as he's meant to,
yielding at every moment to the perfect freedom of single necessity.]]> 2020-10-02 16:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798335245 https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798337833 We can live any way we want
Time and events are merely poured, unremarked
two lovers, a bright blow to the brain
We disappeared last week 
This is suburbia.

]]> 2020-10-02 16:42:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kbliss4/x1vzdp0kq94pvo3w/wish/798337833