After Years Comments
Today, from a distance, I saw you
walking away, and without a sound
the glittering face of a glacier
slid into the sea. An ancient oak
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A powerful poem of personal loss. I am curious why you chose the other sun to be 35 times greater than our own, but I enjoyed the great way you put its explosion and demise as a green spot on the astronomer's retina, but no-one to tell, except us, your readers.
I love this poem. Beautiful, rich, the world of nature sounds lovely.
The depths a poet can cover with such nonchalance. Captured here in After years.
Some very powerful imagery here, but I'm not sure about the last four lines. You go from the astronomer's retina to the great open dome of your heart. Kind of unclear. 'with no one to tell' is a good line.
ted, you should dabble in haiku. all the haiku sentiments you can find in this poem. black hole i find one in my mind
Even after the passing of many years, the event of seeing (from a distance) a past love can result in an emotional impact of infinite proportions. I certainly felt it... great poem!
Another of Kooser's delicate, modest, subtle, great poems about mortality in the light of eternity. The art that conceals art.
Ted Kooser is neither inexperienced, nor without talent, as Mr. Muhammad suggests. He has been the U.S. Poet Laureate for the past two years, won this year's Pulitzer, and has won the Pushcart prize and 2 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. After 30 more years of writing poetry, should he still be alive, I would think he would be standing in Stockholm accepting his Nobel Prize.
This is outstanding.... 'Today, from a distance, I saw you walking away, .....as he stood on the great open dome of my heart with no one to tell.' Wow...I really like this...
This poem shows the poet's inexperience, lack of poetic knowledge and lack of talent. God knows where would the poet stand after 30 years of practice in writing poetry.
Go touch some grass and get a life, you're really on here trashing a dead poet on the internet.
Reading this poem was like the star 35 times larger thant he sun exploding in my hear, like the glittering face of the glacier dropping smoothly into the sea of my my mind! WOW!
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7/28/2025 5:28:50 PM # 1.0.0
This poem created full of brilliance, excellently worded, so near and visible, yet from a distant. Amazing! I love it!