CloudLayer wrote:
I like this poem a lot. Not sure if poem is the right word.
Oh yes. "Desiderata"( Latin for "essential things")
Its considered a "prose-poem" according to wicki.
It was written in the thirties or fourties by the unknown author Max Erhman.
But it was discovered in the sixties, and by 1970 it had ascended to a zenith in pop culture.
I remember seeing it first on a poster- and being quite taken with it.
Then I remember hearing recorded versions on the radio.
National Lampoon even did a parody of the version recorded by Leonard Nimoy.
More of a sendup of nemoy than of the poem itsself.
Then it faded from pop culture like a hit song.
So Im old enough to have been overexposed to it in that 1970 era!
But in the intervening years Ive come around to liking it again.