BlueIris
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Wed Jan-14-09 07:40 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/14/09 |
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"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
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Wed Jan-14-09 12:16 PM
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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
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Wed Jan-14-09 06:18 PM
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3. Yes; that is my favorite part, too. nt |
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Wed Jan-14-09 12:33 PM
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2. "sure tellings that did not start by justifying" |
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love it, thanks.
Any more stuff by this person?
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BlueIris
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Wed Jan-14-09 06:32 PM
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6. I can find some more Merwin, sure. |
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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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Wed Jan-14-09 06:28 PM
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:hi:
Good evening, BlueIris.
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Wed Jan-14-09 06:31 PM
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