Saturday, May 31, 2025

Poem: This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me

 "This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me, — The simple news that Nature told, With tender majesty. Her message is committed To hands I cannot see; For love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of me!"

This is from the Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson available through Amazon Kindle.

I haven't read a lot of poetry, so I am not practiced in picking up nuances in it. So I don't have a lot to say about it, accept reading it feels...lonely. But nonetheless I do like it.


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