Feb 08, 2008

A Sabbath Poem (Budbill)

DILEMMA
~ by David Budbill

I want to be
            famous
so I can be
            humble
about being
            famous.

What good is my
            humility
when I am
            stuck 
in this
            obscurity?

(from Good Poems, Selected and Introduced
by Garrison Keillor, Penguin 2002)
Feb 8, 2008 5:21:38 PM | Sabbath Poems

1 Comment

Now that's my kind of poem - speaks to the intensity of faith and fame - or even reality of faith in a modern world.

Posted by: societyvs | Feb 29, 2008 at 12:12 PM

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