THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS

THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS 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 may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I...

Nature of love

MUCH HAS BEEN SAID Much has been said about the eternal and untouchable nature of love, its tidal ungovernable forces and its emergence from beyond the ordinary, but love may find its fullest, most imagined and most courageous form when it leaves the abstractions and...

REMIND ME

REMIND ME Dear friend, when you see A look of anguish on my face Eyes gazing intently Brusqueness in my pace Jaw firmly clenched Shoulders held tight Tears of sadness or frustration Words of anger, malice, spite. Please find the words to tell me What it is you see And...

Love costs all we are

TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure...

Inside my heart

LAST NIGHT AS I WAS SLEEPING Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt—marvelous error!— that a spring was breaking out in my heart. I said: Along which secret aqueduct, Oh water, are you coming to me, water of a new life that I have never drunk? Last night as I was...

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