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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 07:40 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/14/09
"Teachers"

Pain is in this dark room like so many speakers
of a costly set though mute
as here the needle and the turning

the night lengthens it is winter
a new year

what I live for I can seldom believe in
who I love I cannot go to
what I hope is always divided

but I say to myself you are not a child now
if the night is long remember your unimportance
sleep

then toward morning I dream of the first words
of books of voyages
sure tellings that did not start by justifying

yet at one time it seems
had taught me

—W.S. Merwin
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 12:16 PM
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1. My dear BlueIris!
Ah, this is lovely...

A little sad, too...

...what I live for I can seldom believe in
who I love I cannot go to
what I hope is always divided...


Beautiful.

Thank you!

:hug:
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 06:18 PM
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3. Yes; that is my favorite part, too. nt
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Tuesday Afternoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 12:33 PM
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2. "sure tellings that did not start by justifying"
love it, thanks.

Any more stuff by this person?
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 06:32 PM
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6. I can find some more Merwin, sure.
I have been looking for two specific poems I read by Merwin in college that I love and now cannot locate to save my life. Very frustrating. But I'll keep digging.
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blueraven95 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 06:28 PM
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4. ...
:hi:

Good evening, BlueIris.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-14-09 06:31 PM
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5. Hey, blueraven.
Thanks for stopping by.
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