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The Bigness of Small Poems – #18 in a Series – James Wright – A Poem to Counter Terror

July 15, 2016 – 11:40 pm

  TODAY I WAS HAPPY, SO I MADE THIS POEM As the plump squirrel scampers Across the roof of the corncrib, The moon suddenly stands up in the darkness, And I see that it is impossible to die. Each moment of time is a mountain. An eagle rejoices in the oak trees of heaven, Crying […]

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Sing Me Awake: Listening and The Mysterious Hidden Woman

December 4, 2013 – 3:50 pm

  This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No Other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning but what we find here. No purpose but […]

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