Hello, everyone. This is my first swell. I'm always critical of what I post, but today I had thought to go ahead and post. And the first thing I'm going to post is a poem by Walt Whitman. And the poem is Ome O Life. And the reason for posting it is really I was putting it in a discussion and I felt it important to recite it because I think it's a powerful poem of what we are called as humanity to do so. Here it goes
Incredible swell, Dr. Reyes, and a beautiful selection of poetry to read really deep. We really love how Whitman's the poet. Whitman considered himself faithless and foolish as well, which was really interesting. And this notion of light is not the notion that we probably think of or strive for, but in the context of the poem. He's talking about light as the very thing that makes us look better. So it's like shallowistic, but this is a dope as swell. Thank you so much
What a great poem. What a great swell. Thank you so much for sharing this poem. Rafael Reyes. I couldn't help but think, think even though whenever I hear something again, it's just like watching movies or something, you always pick up on something you didn't catch before. And I was thinking about the struggle with how we see ourselves, our past selves and who we are and hope to become and just feeling, I think myself
So if we did that, then life would just become a grand mystery, that we cry and we laugh along the way because you can't just have a great life eventually. Like saying we have to experience the bottom, we have to experience the highs and the lows so that we can understand it's not so much personal, like, oh, God got it out for me. The universe hates me. No. Life doesn't engage with things very personally, even though it feels intimate
When we realize the foolishness of this world and the faithfulness, we lose faith, and then we do the exact same thing we see of this world, but we're intertwined in it. So this is what you were saying. We're intertwined in that we're part of this life whether we want to or not. And so so the question becomes, what part do we take in it? What is all of this good for, right?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:38
What a rich conversation and what a rich poem. There's some poets here on Swell. I'll try to invite them here just because I love the language of poetry. And I love when poet poets kind of dig into that language, whether it's a poem they love or poem they wrote. It's such an elevated way to approach life challenges is when a poet figures it out for and just says it so perfectly. And that poem is so timely, timeless. Thank you