{"id":5636,"date":"2013-04-06T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2013-04-06T13:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T17:56:12","slug":"day-6-national-poetry-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2013\/04\/day-6-national-poetry-month.html","title":{"rendered":"day 6, National Poetry Month ~"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0Elizabeth Bishop is another poet who is easy to love. She makes her art almost invisible, effortless. Like those invisible zippers that hold the pieces together…<\/p>\n

This is a poem I return to again & again. It’s a villanelle — an old & demanding form. In Bishop’s hands, it seems like conversation…And it has everything to do w\/ beginner’s heart. Change. Loss, attachment ~ it touches on each of these & more.<\/p>\n

Here’s Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art’:<\/p>\n

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One Art<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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The art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master;<\/div>\n
so many things seem filled with the intent<\/div>\n
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.<\/div>\n
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster<\/div>\n
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.<\/div>\n
The art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master.<\/div>\n
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:<\/div>\n
places, and names, and where it was you meant<\/div>\n
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.<\/div>\n
I lost my mother\u2019s watch. And look! my last, or<\/div>\n
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.<\/div>\n
The art of losing isn\u2019t hard to master.<\/div>\n
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,<\/div>\n
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.<\/div>\n
I miss them, but it wasn\u2019t a disaster.<\/div>\n
\u2014Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture<\/div>\n
I love) I shan\u2019t have lied. It\u2019s evident<\/div>\n
the art of losing\u2019s not too hard to master<\/div>\n
though it may look like (Write<\/em>\u00a0it!) like disaster.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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