bookgaga , 30 days ago "A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. You know then that it is not the reason That makes us happy or unhappy. The bird sings. Its feathers shine." #TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens from The Palm at the End of the Mind (1971 Alfred A. Knopf) https://tinyurl.com/hafswuc5
"A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song.
You know then that it is not the reason That makes us happy or unhappy. The bird sings. Its feathers shine."
#TodaysPoem #poetry @poetry Of Mere Being by Wallace Stevens from The Palm at the End of the Mind (1971 Alfred A. Knopf) https://tinyurl.com/hafswuc5