I have a very unique relationship with my pops, I think we are both insane and should live on islands by ourselves. But this poem brought me back to some fond memories.
Those Winter Sundays
by Robert Hayden
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator. He was appointed Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1976. (First African-American)
It’s a beautiful Poem. 🙂
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Yeah it’s really nice, it’s very touching and powerful. Does you’re liking this poem mean that you arent ambivalent anymore
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It certainly is. It is very overwhelming, this piece of art. I definitely like this poem but I’m still ambivalent about most things. 😛
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Ambivalence is cool some times. What happens when you are ambivalent about your ambivalence?
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Well, if you are ambivalent about your ambivalence all one can do is sleep. Sleep. Sleeeep.
Or maybe figure things out, get a hold over your life, be more logical, analytical, rational and let go of your impulses and crazy, illogical ideas.
the pains of being an ambivalent individual can only be understood by another ambivalent being.
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I haven’t read that in a while. Thanks.
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