The Tranquility of Joy and Sorrow

Joy expresses a feeling of infinity

revealed through nature, a spot of time

The shock of loss replaces the feeling of joy, a sonnet for when reflecting loss is a sonnet of sorrow.

Poetry—the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

Its origins. found in emotions recollected in tranquility, the emotion is contemplated till—by a species of reaction, the tranquility gradually disappears.

From the vantage point achieved by time

past, emotion is contemplated, examined, articulated,

Reliving it in memory expresses the rawness of feeling.

experiencing it again—combining the immediacy of emotion with the perspective of intellect.

Joy and sorrow roots where no change, no variation, no vicissituted can find—pure mutability.

To move on—to forget and then to be wrenched back to it—The sorrow—through thThe Tranquility of Joy and Sorrow

Joy expresses a feeling of infinity,
Revealed through nature—
A spot of time.

The shock of loss replaces the feeling of joy:
A sonnet reflecting loss becomes a sonnet of sorrow.

Poetry—
The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings—
Finds its origins in emotions
Recollected in tranquility.
The emotion is contemplated until,
By a species of reaction,
The tranquility gradually disappears.

From the vantage point achieved by time,
Past emotion is contemplated, examined, articulated—
Relived in memory, expressing again the rawness of feeling.
Experiencing it anew,
The immediacy of emotion joins
The perspective of intellect.

Joy and sorrow root themselves
Where no change, no variation,
No vicissitude can find them—
Pure mutability.

To move on,
To forget,
And then to be wrenched back—
The sorrow through the joy of remembering;
Never to return,
For neither present nor future can restore.

As the joy of heaven—
Yet without redemption—
We face the oppressive silence of death.

And yet,
Time has the power
To make the living forget sorrow.
Time consigns the dead to the past,
And drags the living
Back to life—
And to joy.