"Full of Summer".....

"Full of Summer"

This is the full of summer, this is all

Bold bumblebees have always dreamed about;

This floating is my rise that has no fall;

This steadiness my in that has no out.

And this my body's happiness -- the call

Persuading me to pause deep in today

As purple clover scents the swaying air

Bold bumblebees have always dreamed about.

I watch more ripeness ripening the way

A whirling orange blur of oriole

Blends with lake water blazing everywhere;

A hummingbird suspended at a rose

As if in mimic of the sun whose flare

Holds her eternal moment in my mind.

This is my opening that has no close;

This is my now with then now left behind

And icy wind a thought thought can forestall:

This is the full of summer, this is all.

 Robert Pack

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"Entschleunigung" - "Deceleration"....

....at a friends place....

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...calm...

...cool.......

...and peaceful

taking a few holidays...

Until then......k

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Robert Pack

 (born New York, NY, May 19, 1929) is an American poet and critic, 

and Distinguished Senior Professor in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana. 

 In 1957 Pack was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy to translate poetry. 

During his year abroad, he traveled extensively, attending opera performances. 

Later he would publish translations of the Mozart librettos, and the figure of Mozart -- 

along with other beloved figures, such as Darwin, Freud, and Einstein -- appear throughout his poetry.

Pack, as always, exhibits a technical mastery that has all but disappeared from recent poetry. 

His meters have relaxed, creating an unusual suppleness and ease in his recounting of family anecdotes, 

and they have veered further than ever from those of his old master, Robert Frost. by Mark Strand

here more:

http://robertpack.blogspot.fr/p/life-story.html