Ode to Bill Holm
April 4th, 2007 by 
dani
This is my all-time favorite poem:
August in Waterton, Alberta
By Bill Holm
Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.
As suggested by this week’s Poetry Thursday prompt, here is my
Ode to Bill Holm
Awestruck by you, I do my best
to blow words around
the page in search of treasure.
No use pen. All I succeed
in doing is echoing your voice, perfection
finding beauty in imperfection.
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12 Comments »
April 5th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Holm’s poem is quite wonderful. You have created a little masterpiece of your own too. I see the connection in structure between the two and the inspiration. Very nice.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
both poems create a clear image for me.
Quite lovely:)
April 5th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I love the Bill Holm poem, very beuatiful, thanks for sharing. I also think yours is excellent how it mirrors his in wording and meaning.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
You did a great job echoing his tone and structure. I never read the Holm poem before and it is beautiful!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
These were wonderful… I can see why you are most affected by him…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
What a great tribute. His poem and yours work well together.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
This is lovely, and you’ve really followed his style in expressing your appreciation.
http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2007/04/poetry-thursday-14-todays-challenge-has.html
April 5th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Love how you copied the style. Thanks for stopping by.
April 5th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Wonderful — both to be introduced to Bill Holm and his poem, and to read your ode to him and “meet” your blog.
Love this:
“…to blow words around
the page in search of treasure.”
April 6th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I love Bill Holm — I didn’t think anyone outside of MN knew about him.
Great tribute both in style and content.
April 6th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Nice idea well done. (You’ve inspired me to give it a try.) I’ll have to read some of Holm’s work.
Your words are a wonderful response to his.
April 13th, 2007 at 12:08 am
These are both great. I wanted to observe that I was looking for a referral to some modern French poetry and didn’t get any suggestions and then I surf over to here and found some. I’m going to have to spend some more time checking these out.