Tuesday, November 20, 2012

916. Shadows - D. H. Lawrence

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And if tonight my soul may find her peace
 in sleep, and sink in good oblivion,
 and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower 
the...
Sunday, November 18, 2012

915. Year's End - Jorge Luis Borge

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Translated from the Spanish by W. S. Merwin Neither the symbolic detail of a three instead of a two, nor that rough metaphor that hails one ...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

914. Toy Camera - Lenore Horowitz

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. If only life could be like that 
sometimes, just blurred at the edges,
 slightly out of focus,
 a tiny bit fogged,
 and those people ...
Tuesday, November 06, 2012

913. Now I Become Myself - May Sarton

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. Now I become myself. It’s taken Time, many years and places; I have been dissolved and shaken, Worn other people’s faces, Run madly, as if...
Thursday, November 01, 2012

912. From March 1979 - Tomas Tranströmer

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Tomas Tranströmer - From March 1979 Translated from the Swedish by Robin Robertson Sick of those who come with words, words but no langua...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

911. The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry

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. When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives m...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

910. A Maze Me - Naomi Shihab

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 . Life is a tangle of twisting paths. Some short. Some long. There are dead ends. And there are choices. And wrong turns, and detours, and...
Tuesday, October 09, 2012

909. into the strenuous briefness - e.e. cummings

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 . into the strenuous briefness Life: handorgans and April darkness, friends i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow d...
Thursday, October 04, 2012

908. Look To This Day - Kalidasa

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(Sanskrit poet) Look to this day For it is the very life of life. In its brief course lie all The verities and realities of your existence: ...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

907. Under One Small Star - Wislawa Szymborska

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Under One Small Star (1) Translated from the Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh My apologies to chance for calling it necessit...
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

906. Parallax - Lenore Horowitz

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 From: (http://www.womencandoit.com/) You never know 
What will change the world- 
a word lightly spoken,
 a touch from a stranger,
 a...
Saturday, September 01, 2012

905. Credo - Maxine Kumin

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. I believe in magic. I believe in the rights of animals to leap out of our skins as recorded in the Kiowa legend: Directly there was a bear...
Sunday, August 05, 2012

904. The Swan - Mary Oliver

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Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river? 
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air - 
An armful of w...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

903. The Healing Time - Pesha Gertler

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Finally on my way to yes I bump into all the places where I said no to my life all the untended wounds the red and purple scars those hierog...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

902. That I Not Be A Restless Ghost - Margaret Mead

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(to her daughter) That I not be a restless ghost Who haunts your footsteps as they pass Beyond the point where you have left Me standin...
Saturday, July 07, 2012

901. So Much Happiness - Naomi Shihab Nye

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. It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, A wound to tend with lotion and...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

900. Nocturne - Tomas Tranströmer

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t ranslated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton I drive through a village at night, the houses rise up in the glare of my headlights—they...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

899. To Be Found - Willow Pearson

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. We are always looking for the mirror
 by which we might see 
our true Self Look closely. There is no place that mirror is not Yet the...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

899. “Any fool can get into an ocean . . .” - Jack Spicer

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. Any fool can get into an ocean But it takes a Goddess To get out of one. What’s true of oceans is true, of course, Of labyrinths and...
Saturday, June 09, 2012

898. Argos - Michael Collier

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. If you think Odysseus too strong and brave to cry, that the god-loved, god-protected hero when he returned to Ithaka disguised, intent to ...