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Air

Naturally it is night. Under the overturned lute with its One string I am going my way Which has a strange sound. This way the dust, that way the dust. I listen to both sides But I keep right on. I remember the leaves sitting in judgment And then winter.…

4 tygodnie temu

@w-s-merwin

Words From A Totem Animal

Distance is where we were but empty of us and ahead of me lying out in the rushes thinking even the nights cannot come back to their hill any time…

4 tygodnie temu

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To the New Year

With what stillness at last you appear in the valley your first sunlight reaching down to touch the tips of a few high leaves that do not stir as though they had not noticed and did not know you at all then the voice of a dove calls from far away in itself…

4 tygodnie temu

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Rain Light

All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you are alone you will be all right whether or not you know you will know look at the old house in the dawn rain all the flowers are forms of water the sun reminds them through a white cloud…

4 tygodnie temu

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For the Anniversary of My Death

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me And the silence will set out Tireless traveler Like the beam of a lightless star…

4 tygodnie temu

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The Highway

It seems too enormous just for a man to be Walking on. As if it and the empty day Were all there is. And a little dog Trotting in time with the heat waves, off Near the horizon, seeming never to get Any farther. The sun and everything Are stuck in the same places, and the ditch…

4 tygodnie temu

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Wild Oats

Watching the first sunlight touch the tops of the palms what could I ask All the beads have gone from the old string and the string does not miss them The daughters of memory never pronounce their own names In the language of heaven the angel said go make your own garden…

4 tygodnie temu

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Thanks

Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it…

4 tygodnie temu

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Separation

Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

4 tygodnie temu

@w-s-merwin