See the movement in the poem - and make the connections for yourself!
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Everything flows
  upward and over
      chalk-white walls
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Sea
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WHEN the sea is everywhere
from horizon to horizon ..
when the salt and blue
fill a circle of horizons ..
I swear again how I know
the sea is
St David
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Saint David's Day
At school they told us
that it was the day
on which Jesus
and a host of angels
came to Wales.
There was sunshine
full of endless
intricate
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Intricate and untraceable
weaving and interweaving,
dark strand with light:
designed, beyond
all spiderly contrivance,
to link, not to entrap:
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the face in the mirror
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we are the face in the mirror
and we are the mirror itself.
Here, now, right now, we taste
the eternal. Yes, we are pain
and yes, we are the medic
Dark
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 Like the water
 of a deep stream, love is always too much.
We did not make it. Though we drink till
we burst we cannot have it all, or want it
midwinter spring
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Midwinter spring is its own season...
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In
Who am I?
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 Real
I’m not a symbol
I’m not a statistic
I’m not the inches in somebody’s column.
I’m not admirable, but
I’m not pitiable either
Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
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Quelle est cette odeur agréable,
Bergers, qui ravit tous nos sens?
S’exhale-t’il rien de semblable
Au milieu des fleurs du printemps?
Quelle
focus
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Is Heaven a Place -- a Sky -- a Tree?
Location's narrow way is for Ourselves --
Unto the Dead
There's no Geography --
But State -- Endowal -- Focu
Water
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water
If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.
Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;
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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
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Stillness
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stillness
Whatever you hoped,
you will not find yourselves in the garden,
among the growing plants.
Your lives are not circular like theirs
The métier of blossoming
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If humans could be
that intensely whole, undistracted, unhurried,
 swift from sheer
 unswerving impetus!
If we could blossom out of ourselves,
Where is true religion to be found?
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It may indeed be phantasy, when I
 Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ;
And trace in le
Rain
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Rain
The monotone of the rain is beautiful,
And the sudden rise and slow relapse
Of the long multitudinous rain.
The sun on the hills is beautiful,
in a different light?
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towering of shadows of clouds
From the tawny light
from the rainy nights
from the imagination finding
itself and more than itself
alone and
those things that don’t flower?
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self-blessing
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The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
tho
love is a place
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brightness
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love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places
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From e.e.cummings, love is a place.
Faith
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Faith
I want to write about faith,
    about the way the moon rises
       over cold snow, night after night,
faithful even as it fades