National Poetry Month
Apr. 14th, 2006 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brigdhThe Sea and the Man Anna Swir, translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Leonard Nathan
You will not tame this sea
either by humility or laughter.
But you can laugh
in its face.
Laughter
was invented by those
who live briefly
as a burst of laughter.
The eternal sea
will never learn to laugh.
You will not tame this sea
either by humility or laughter.
But you can laugh
in its face.
Laughter
was invented by those
who live briefly
as a burst of laughter.
The eternal sea
will never learn to laugh.
