Re: Dream Song 14

Will Dockery wrote:

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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatingly) 'Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
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Inner Resources.' I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as achilles,
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who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
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*John Berryman*

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John Berryman has been a favorite of mine for a few years, after

the excellent critic Rick Howe compared my poetry to his, back in 1989:

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http://alt.arts.poetry.comments.narkive.com/lwAUsChD/john-berryman-comparison

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This is interesting (to me, at least).
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I came across this nice quote about my poetry which I will use,

that was really insightful and thus a good help.

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"In style and temperament, William Dockery's poetry is a little

like that of John Berryman - cf., The Dream Songs. A basically sensitive
but slightly discombobulated... self, in the way in which a poet like
William Dockery understands it, is essentially a myth." -From William
Dockery's New Poems (critique by Rick Howe) circa 1989

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https://groups.google.com/forum/embed/#!topic/alt.arts.poetry.comments/hCmeK1z1cj4

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About John Berryman, from Wikipedia:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berryman
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John Allyn Berryman (October 25, 1914 - January 7, 1972) was an

American poet and scholar, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major
figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and was
considered a key figure in the Confessional school of poetry, though
when he was asked about being a confessional poet, he replied, "with
rage and contempt." His best-known work is The Dream Songs.

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Good back story on one of my very fave poets...