Comments on: White Flowers by Mary Oliver http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/02/12/white-flowers-by-mary-oliver/ Thu, 24 May 2012 17:48:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: emerson http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/02/12/white-flowers-by-mary-oliver/#comment-36434 emerson Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:10 +0000 http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/02/12/white-flowers-by-mary-oliver/#comment-36434 It was pretty bad. I mean some of the opening ceremony wwas good, K.D. Lang was good, but the torch thing broke and there were those scottish tap-dancing pirates? And Peter Pan from Prairie Land...I don't think it represented Vancouver. And then those people rioting the day after...that was scary, I'm glad I didn't go downtown that day. It was pretty bad. I mean some of the opening ceremony wwas good, K.D. Lang was good, but the torch thing broke and there were those scottish tap-dancing pirates? And Peter Pan from Prairie Land…I don’t think it represented Vancouver. And then those people rioting the day after…that was scary, I’m glad I didn’t go downtown that day.

]]> By: Doug http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/02/12/white-flowers-by-mary-oliver/#comment-36354 Doug Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:24:12 +0000 http://rinabeana.com/poemoftheday/index.php/2010/02/12/white-flowers-by-mary-oliver/#comment-36354 Ah yes, watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Up her in Canada, it's becoming one of the few times our otherwise quiet country puffs itself up and raises its collective bilingual voice in outlandish patriotism. I do have to wonder how much sense the rest of the world makes of all the insider references and obscure multicultural images built into the ceremony. Though all in all, it was a good show with some genuinely moving touches. And what has this all got to do with poetry? There was even a poetry moment in the ceremony! k.d. lang sang Leonard Cohen's "Halleluja." I'll always think of Cohen as a writer and poet first. So there it is... there is no escaping poety. Ah yes, watching the Olympic Opening Ceremonies. Up her in Canada, it’s becoming one of the few times our otherwise quiet country puffs itself up and raises its collective bilingual voice in outlandish patriotism. I do have to wonder how much sense the rest of the world makes of all the insider references and obscure multicultural images built into the ceremony.

Though all in all, it was a good show with some genuinely moving touches.

And what has this all got to do with poetry?

There was even a poetry moment in the ceremony! k.d. lang sang Leonard Cohen’s “Halleluja.” I’ll always think of Cohen as a writer and poet first.

So there it is… there is no escaping poety.

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