Comments on: Throw Your Rockets Far http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/ We serve only the finest fresh-roasted electrons. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:53:11 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Dallas http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/#comment-6796 Dallas Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:32:55 +0000 http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/#comment-6796 Its beautiful..the poem is Paul... To me it screams of purpose..of instinct.. Love Dallas Its beautiful..the poem is Paul…

To me it screams of purpose..of instinct..

Love

Dallas

]]> By: Paul http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/#comment-13 Paul Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:45:00 +0000 http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/#comment-13 Thank you for your kind words! This is one of my favorite poems, Rebecca, and I think one of my best.<br/><br/>It begins deep in our past, when our species was born in Africa. And I personally believe we have in many ways never left the yellow grasses of Africa --- after all, our very nature is rooted in our ancestors who lived there.<br/><br/>But I can't explain the poem any better than it explains itself. When Aaron was eight, he seemed to me both true to his own nature, and in a larger sense, true to human nature. (He still does.) There is about him a timelessness, a quality of being fully authentic. I don't know how well the poem captures that, but it is always worth the effort to try to capture something as beautiful as Aaron's spirit. Thank you for your kind words! This is one of my favorite poems, Rebecca, and I think one of my best.

It begins deep in our past, when our species was born in Africa. And I personally believe we have in many ways never left the yellow grasses of Africa — after all, our very nature is rooted in our ancestors who lived there.

But I can’t explain the poem any better than it explains itself. When Aaron was eight, he seemed to me both true to his own nature, and in a larger sense, true to human nature. (He still does.) There is about him a timelessness, a quality of being fully authentic. I don’t know how well the poem captures that, but it is always worth the effort to try to capture something as beautiful as Aaron’s spirit.

]]> By: Rebecca http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/#comment-11 Rebecca Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:02:00 +0000 http://cafephilos.wordpress.com/2007/03/11/throw-your-rockets-far/#comment-11 I love this poem. At the beginning I'm somewhere and it is in the last line that the whole picture is displayed. I remember those days. I love the historical reference you give them! I love this poem. At the beginning I’m somewhere and it is in the last line that the whole picture is displayed. I remember those days. I love the historical reference you give them!

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