Letter From a Reader
Too much about death,
too many shadows.
Write about an average day,
the yearning for order.
Take the school bell
as your model
of moderation,
even scholarship.
Too much death,
too much
dark radiance.
Take a look,
crowds packed
in cramped stadiums
sing songs of hatred.
Too much music,
too little harmony, peace,
reason.
Write about those moments
when friendship’s footbridges
seem more enduring
than despair.
Write about love,
long evenings,
the dawn,
the trees,
about the endless patience
of the light.
—Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems
Maki Horonai, Just the Beginning
Maki Horonai is an Australia-based artist from Japan, who spent many hours as a child, sitting or playing on the beach.
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Spectral Lyre 
Nice! We should all write what we want to, but perhaps we also need to try to look at the world with optimistic eyes once in a while. =)
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Thank you so much for reading. There is, of course, more than one way of reading this.
It is possible to read a bit of poetic irony into the piece. 🙂 Or of the poet’s struggle with his own irony.
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we shall, we shall indeed…
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A footbridge and patient light…it feels precarious, it feels calming.
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