Challenge Day Sixteen / How Can I

How can I not look forward

To what the breaking sun clings

When busy buses play a chord

Of 'what-the-day-may-bring'

Isn't it worth any knowing?

For yesterday's come to past

And all my sorrows like blowing

That once pushes my breath,

Then never lasts,

Are buried now where the sleep dwells

And morning, cool morning gives

Me a chance to re-write spells

My open eyes like sieves

Let me KNOW - today I shall win...

And what remorses evening adds!

If I had failed in some deeds

Should I forget, ignore the past

No - there are all my rosary beads

Constituing me now and here

So let the old man in their stars stare

Let the horses of the clear morning drive

Away the old regrets, I'll strive

Not for ignorance nor burying my hopes

But for more strength to cope

Day 16: Spend some time with a favorite poem (written by someone else). Write a poem in response to (or in dialogue with) that poem.

My TWO fav. poems:

How clear, how lovely bright,

How beautiful to sight

Those beams of morning play;

How heaven laughs out with glee

Where, like a bird set free,

Up from the eastern sea

Soars the delightful day.

To-day I shall be strong,

No more shall yield to wrong,

Shall squander life no more;

Days lost, I know not how,

I shall retrieve them now;

Now I shall keep the vow

I never kept before.

Ensanguining the skies

How heavily it dies

Into the west away;

Past touch and sight and sound

Not further to be found,

How hopeless under ground

Falls the remorseful day.

...Housman

The Dawn by W.B. Yates

I WOULD be ignorant as the dawn

That has looked down

On that old queen measuring a town

With the pin of a brooch,

Or on the withered men that saw

From their pedantic Babylon

The careless planets in their courses,

The stars fade out where the moon comes.

And took their tablets and did sums;

I would be ignorant as the dawn

That merely stood, rocking the glittering coach

Above the cloudy shoulders of the horses;

I would be—for no knowledge is worth a straw -

Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.