Once a month, Brainshrub.com gets dedicated to poetry and haiku.
This month instead of my own work, I'd like to share with you one of the poems that got me interested in poetry in the first place. It's called: "You and I"
Follow this hyperlink to hear it:
http://media.odeo.com/2/0/9/iyou.mp3
Here are the verses:
Only one I in the whole wide world, and millions and millions of you.
But - every you is an I unto himself and I am a you to you too.
But - if you are an I and I am a you and the opposite also is true, it makes us both the same somehow
Yet splits us each in two.
It's more and more mysterious the more I think it through:
Every you every where in the world is an I. Every I in the world is a you.
By: Mary Ann Hoberman From: MY SONG IS BEAUTIFUL (Little, Brown and Co., 1994)
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As usual, your own poetry is welcome in the comments.
Tags: poetry
Note: Special thanks to Patty who found the author of this poem. I could have sworn I had this thing memorized since grade school, and my initial Google search came up empty.