Poetry

    
     Both Out Beyond Ideas and Where The Sidewalk Ends are compelling pieces of poetry that creates a strong relationship with the words written. Both have numerous attributes that earns recommendation,  but both earn it for very different reasons.
     Out Beyond Ideas by Rumi is a poem grasping the idea that we are always trying but can never fully wrap our heads around the world. I related to this because often my mind wanders to this place of absolute, where the world is just too big and too full to even be able to imagine or know. This poem excited me because Rumi completely caught that feeling and emotion into  words.
     Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was a whole separate piece of beautiful. This poem was written about the magical quality oneself connects with the untamed outdoors. Silverstein describes the magnetic pull children seem to have to it, they always know where to find the magic.
     Both these poems are very different because one connects to the deep conscience that can't quite reach the full grasp on life, while the other plays on the innocent relation a child has with the outdoors; one an adult would long for. Though they are written on ultimately different subjects, both poems call to the nagging feeling you've forgotten you hid in the back of your mind.