This is a small poetry club that started as a poetry email exchange between two friends. Our goal is to read a poem everyday, and this blog is one way to help keep us accountable. There is only one valid rule in poetry club: there are no rules in poetry club. Read any poem, in any order, with any or no interactions. You decide. We only suggest you read poetry!
9 Dec: "Runner" by Walt Whitman
"Runner" by Walt Whitman
ON a flat road runs the well-train’d runner;
He is lean and sinewy, with muscular legs;
He is thinly clothed—he leans forward as he runs,
With lightly closed fists, and arms partially rais’d.
Did he actually see this runner? I don't think a well trained runner would be leaning forward. Maybe well trained runners of the past might have. As someone who used to be a runner, I'm not feeling anything from this poem. Just a person watching a runner on the road.
Did he actually see this runner? I don't think a well trained runner would be leaning forward. Maybe well trained runners of the past might have. As someone who used to be a runner, I'm not feeling anything from this poem. Just a person watching a runner on the road.
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