I Am Vertical (Sylvia Plath)

One of my favorite poems adapted to a visual media presentation. :-)

"I am Vertical" by Sylvia Plath

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them --
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.

Music - Sigur Ros, Fljotavik

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• I am Vertical
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[beteeeify]

whats the name of the song

[oceandream130]

@beteeeify Sigur Ros, Fljotavik :)

[entelequia83]

Sylvia & Sigur Rós ♡♡

[beteeeify]

@oceandream130 thanks :)