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amsthegreat
You must allow the words to sink in, to show you something, to transform you. My favorite poem of all time is about the experience of being transformed through the reading of poetry. I want to share it with all of you.
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Written on April 14th, 2010
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swanfether
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your...
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Written on July 20th, 2008
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destry
A Brave and Startling Truth
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual spaceÂ
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent sunsÂ
To a destination where all signs tell usÂ
It is possible and...
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Written on February 20th, 2013
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WindingPath
When you can boil a whole experience into a few words that, carefully chosen, can be read by many people and evoke in them an experience that is not exactly the same but the same on some level.
Our lives are filled with conversations...
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Written on September 17th, 2008
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imitosis
To each his suff'rings, all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes...
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Written on April 14th, 2010
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swanfether
The Autumn Sonnets
If I can let you go as trees let go
Their leaves, so casually, one by one,
If I can come to know what they do know,
That fall is the release, the consummation,
Then fear of time and the uncertain fruit...
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Written on July 20th, 2008
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