Why I Write: Part 1

 

This week the National Writing Project is celebrating National Writing Day on October 20th. The theme this year is " Why I Write".

I write to help make sense of my world. I write to bring meaning to the photographs I take obsessively every hour of every day. I write to calm myself down when I am somewhere I don't want to be. I write to remember. I write to organize. I write to account for my life.  Again, I write to make sense of my world.

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The Beautiful Changes

The Beautiful Changes

By Richard Wilbur

One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides

The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies

On water; it glides

So from the walker, it turns

Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you

Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed

By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;

As a mantis, arranged

On a green leaf, grows

Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves

Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says

They are not only yours; the beautiful changes

In such kind ways,

Wishing ever to sunder

Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose

For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.