What do I Believe?

I believe in fate, love, and karma. 

An Old Life- Donald Hall

An Old Life

Snow fell in the night.

At five-fifteen I woke to a bluish

mounded softness where 

the Honda was. Cat fed and coffee made,

I broomed snow off the car

and drove to the Kearsarge Mini-Mart

before Amy opened 

to yank my Globe out of the bundle.

Back, I set my cup of coffee

beside Jane, still half-asleep,

murmuring stuporous

thanks in the aquamarine morning.

Then I sat in my blue chair 

with blueberry bagels and strong

black coffee reading news, 

the obits, the comics, and the sports.

Carrying my cup twenty feet, 

I sat myself at the desk

for this day's lifelong

engagement with the one task and desire. 

- Donald Hall

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I chose this poem by Donald Hall because it expresses his feelings about the past. He talks very descriptively about his encounters during a normal day of his life. He explains that he has an engagement with the one task and desire. I really enjoy this poem  because it explains his life. Enjoying your everyday life is a very important thing to have. 

"It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."- William Carlos Williams

I think Williams Carlos Williams accurately states a position that many people are in when they read poetry. Poetry can be a hard thing to pick apart and realize some forms of symbolism and meanings. Not all people look at poetry the same, some people look into it very deeply and some others just look at the face value. People need to appreciate and enjoy the art of poetry.