Poem Fragment (”Life -”) Lyrics
Life –
I am of both of your directions
Life
Somehow remaining hanging downward
the most
but strong as a cobweb in the
wind — I exist more with the cold glistening frost.
But my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in a painting — ah life they
have cheated you
I am of both of your directions
Life
Somehow remaining hanging downward
the most
but strong as a cobweb in the
wind — I exist more with the cold glistening frost.
But my beaded rays have the colors I’ve
seen in a painting — ah life they
have cheated you
About
Genius Annotation
Marilyn Monroe: film star, sex symbol…poet? It’s not the best-known aspect of the Marilyn legend, but the actress born Norma Jean Baker was an avid reader and a fairly prolific writer offscreen. Maria Popova of Brain Pickings writes:
While she wasn’t shooting, [Monroe] was taking literature and history night classes at UCLA. And yet, the public image of a breezy, bubbly blonde endures as a caricature of Monroe’s character…
But her private poetry — fragmentary, poem-like texts scribbled in notebooks and on loose-leaf paper….reveals a complex, sensitive being who peered deeply into her own psyche and thought intensely about the world and other people.
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