The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you:
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want:
Don't go back to sleep.
Peopl
pond
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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
after a night of rain.
I dip my cupped hands. I drink
a long time. It tastes
like stone, l
so shining
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Conjure something glowing
Take this day
You were born with hands for spinning
Talent for dreams and making them real
Roll the hours like yarn
outburst
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EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing;
And I was fill'd with such delight
As prison'd birds must find in freedom
Winging wildly across the whit
tristesse
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sadness, goodbye
but hello again
you are the writing
on the ceiling
you are the writing
in her eyes
sadness, sadness, you're not that bad
I ca
the scarlet sky
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when a child leaves the breast
for solid food
it does not look back
it grows
the seed is nourished by earth
then spreads towards the sun
so:
morning rain
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The dawn light. A light rain.
I hear it on the treetop leaves.
Then, the mist. The morning wind
blows it and the clouds away.
Now colours dee
luminous
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the day is remarkable
luminous, joyful
so easy, to live
with the taste of colour
love makes me laugh
and, at the last
moment, I open
my eyes
steel
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Lay me on an anvil, O God.
Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.
Let me pry loose old walls.
Let me lift and loosen old foundations.
Lay me on
shining
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I've tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I've tried it fine
amazement is the thing
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The point is the seeing, the grace
beyond recognition, the ways
of the bird rising, unnamed, unknown,
beyond the range of language, beyond i
white flower
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He said, I am with you always.
That means, when you look for God
That God is the looking itself,
Yes, and the thought of looking
And the y
WHAT SHOULD I FEAR?
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Let the immeasurable come.
Let the unknowable touch the buckle of my spine.
Let the wind turn in the trees,
and the mystery hi
delight
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All the others translate: the painter sketches
A visible world to love or reject;
Rummaging into his living, the poet fetches
The images o
radiant
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this blessing
God's love
calls us
to that elsewhere world
which only lovers
eyes alight, eyes aflame
can see at all.
only those who have
se
the beauty of the heart
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The beauty of the heart
is what will remain:
it brings to your lips
the water of life.
in truth, it is the water,
and the jug that holds i
The peace of wild things
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When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go a
acting
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Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.
When your truth forsakes its shyness,
When your fears surrender to your strengths,
You will begin
Love
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All that there is, is love. Nothing else is, but love.
Love is the force that fires the stars,
that drives our lives from seed to se
smile
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One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily,
And loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight,
And people will untie themselves,