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Set
by Kristina WoodhillSet in stone at last!
carved deeply
completely ours!
In single file en mass
we walk past
this our numbered
promise
our final realize
though lids
must pause
and blink a thousand
yet ten thousand times
before our
hands and eyes
meet
this
sweet
yet final cause
this artifact
the breath is caught
and held
I gasp my small
part too - discard
my blush at such
a childish glee
it is
in
me!
and I
accept its
allure knowing
full well we
may be led
through death
and hell
before our
heroes wend
their way
by bard's careful
wanded words
to that
splendid,
splendid,
splendid,
end of ends
02/01/2007
Author's Note: J.K. Rowling announced the release day of July 21, 2007 for the final Harry Potter!
Posted on 02/01/2007
Copyright © 2025 Kristina Woodhill
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Genevieve Sturrock on 02/02/07 at 01:25 PM thank's for the author's note. i re-read and it made perfect sense. well done...though i'm not a harry potter fan. |
| Posted by Michelle Angelini on 02/04/07 at 06:37 PM Incredible, but this can be true of so many things. And the wanting and attaining never appears to stop. Too many times I've gone through the process you describe in the second stanza for items I want. And yes, it's like going through hell with bated breath until it's in my hands. In this respect, I'm like the child you describe.
;-) Wonderful imagery.
~Chelle~ |
| Posted by Kathleen Wilson on 02/04/07 at 06:49 PM Beautiful title, simple and complete. The poem open-ended, with no period, though ending with "end of ends" -- indicating the unknown ending, and overtones of meanings--as by "end of ends" I can imagine no more endings-- (this being the final) or it can mean best of all ends! "Set" with the feeling of completion can also, alternatively mean --set to go-- (a beginning) thus implying ready to read... I love all of this playfulness, and magical language... appropriate to the topic. I must say I had images of personal (furture) grave markers, vaults, tombstones... before I realized what we were talking about-- but that just points to the delightful suggestiveness of the poem... and my imagination. |
| Posted by Christel Crews on 02/05/07 at 07:57 PM a well written piece! how is it that literature can take us to such heights that makes the most "grown-up" of us giggle with glee? such a beautiful tribute to literature in general! |
| Posted by Joan Serratelli on 02/05/07 at 10:30 PM I too, appreciated the note and re-read it. Your poem could actually make me become a Harry Potter fan! |
| Posted by Gregory O'Neill on 02/05/07 at 11:13 PM After all,to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. J.K. Rowling herself! |
| Posted by Mara Meade on 02/08/07 at 02:40 PM She did give us all a wonderful journey, didn't she? I love this! |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 02/10/07 at 04:19 PM Love the poetics here Kristina, though addmittedly didn't grasp the inspiration until I read your Author's Note. Haven't read the books, but caught a few of the films, and really enjoyed them. |
| Posted by Maria Terezia Ferencz on 02/12/07 at 01:58 AM Wow I had a whole set of ideas and none of them even entertained the thought of a book. Once the note was read it became a whole new poem. Wonderful. |
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