tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20284561468087673132024-03-19T08:48:53.071+00:00A Poem A Day:Indulging my love of poetry by posting a poem a day, every day... to inspire, delight and enlighten!
Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.comBlogger1548125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-76673823141672775912020-12-20T19:21:00.002+00:002020-12-20T19:21:49.603+00:00Winter Solstice<header class="entry-header" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; display: block; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 40px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="What and When is Winter Solstice?" class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" height="240" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://c.tadst.com/gfx/750w/tree-winter-solstice.jpg?1" style="background-color: white; background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position-x: 0px, 10px; background-position-y: 0px, 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: medium; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: medium; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: medium; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: medium; height: 325.78px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 434px;" width="320" /><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><b></b><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i></i><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Winter Solstice - Tess Jolly</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1d1d1b;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I will not write about
Christmas lights garlanding the tree,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
how steadily red blends to sapphire emerald gold,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
how strong the little bulbs must be to throw their dancing hearts<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
upon the café wall, how children try to catch them.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I will not say there is tinsel draped about the branches<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
like seaweed over pebbles, nor paint the cloths swaddling our skins<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
apricot, indigo, violet, teal. I will not speak of glazed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
pastries on the counter, how they shine so much<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
they could be varnished, there for the hell-of-it, for the sheer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
beauty of their glistening berries. I’ll turn away from buses heaving<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
down the rush-hour road, ignore how in all this rain<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
the headlamps could be tumbling garnets, polished amber,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
as if a picture-book box of pirate treasure had spilt its pearls<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
and precious stones across a tarmacked page.</span></span></p>
</span><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 18.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; orphans: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #1d1d1b;">I will not
describe how the sun becomes the sea, I will not delight<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
in words to name its colours – cerise, crimson, indigo,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
scarlet, madder, rose. I will not try to find a way<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
to show your smile across the table, how it slips like warm charcoal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
into the fabric of my heart. I will not suggest I light a candle<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
as the year prepares to wane, that you hold a second wick to mine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
then another and another, that together we whisper a prayer<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
for each growing flame. I will not talk about the light<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
that is everywhere, how far you have to travel for the sky<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
to be completely black (and even then there are stars, there is the moon’s<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
borrowed brightness). I will not question why fire burns more fiercely <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
before sputtering out, or how – when we know we’re dying –<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
we can be so fully alive. I will not say these things because this<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
is a poem about darkness. I am writing about the darkness.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
</span></span><br /></p></div></header>Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com122tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-30279691982544154692020-09-22T18:56:00.004+01:002020-09-22T18:56:47.633+01:00Autumn Equinox<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img class="n3VNCb" data-noaft="1" height="133" jsaction="load:XAeZkd;" jsname="HiaYvf" src="https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fall-leaves.jpg" style="background-color: white; background-image: linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 25%, rgba(239, 239, 239, 0) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position-x: 0px, 10px; background-position-y: 0px, 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; 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border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today is the Autumn Equinox. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Although I do love fallen leaves, I wish I felt the same as the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">season as Emily does here (sigh).</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Fall Leaves, Fall - Emily Bronte</b></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Lengthen night and shorten day;</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Every leaf speaks bliss to me</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Fluttering from the autumn tree.</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I shall smile when wreaths of snow</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Blossom where the rose should grow;</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
I shall sing when night’s decay</span><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Ushers in a drearier day.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 100%; font-style: inherit; font-variant: normal; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div>Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-9212573001373549982020-03-20T12:06:00.003+00:002020-03-20T12:08:24.327+00:00Spring Equinox<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border-image: none; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-indent: -1em; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Let us forget all other news items today but this: spring is here.<br />
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Let spring be a consolation to us now and poetry, more so than ever. </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Today - Billy Collins</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If ever there were a spring day so perfect,</span></div>
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so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze</span></div>
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that it made you want to throw</span></div>
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open all the windows in the house</span></div>
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and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,</span></div>
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indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,</span></div>
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a day when the cool brick paths</span></div>
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and the garden bursting with peonies</span></div>
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seemed so etched in sunlight</span></div>
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that you felt like taking</span></div>
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a hammer to the glass paperweight</span></div>
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on the living room end table,</span></div>
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releasing the inhabitants</span></div>
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from their snow-covered cottage</span></div>
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so they could walk out,</span></div>
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holding hands and squinting</span></div>
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into this larger dome of blue and white,</span></div>
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well, today is just that kind of day.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-31254907089462183622020-01-06T18:50:00.000+00:002020-01-06T18:50:00.195+00:00Taking Down the Tree/Epiphany<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Two poems for the last day of Christmas...<br />
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<b>Taking Down the Tree - Jane Kenyon</b><br />
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"Give me some light!" cries Hamlet's</div>
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uncle midway through the murder</div>
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of Gonzago. "Light! Light!" cry scattering</div>
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courtesans. Here, as in Denmark,</div>
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it's dark at four, and even the moon</div>
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shines with only half a heart.</div>
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The ornaments go down into the box:</div>
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the silver spaniel, <em style="border-bottom-color: currentColor; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: currentColor; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: currentColor; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: currentColor; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My Darling</em></div>
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on its collar, from Mother's childhood</div>
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in Illinois; the balsa jumping jack</div>
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my brother and I fought over,</div>
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pulling limb from limb. Mother</div>
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drew it together again with thread</div>
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while I watched, feeling depraved</div>
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at the age of ten.</div>
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With something more than caution</div>
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I handle them, and the lights, with their</div>
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tin star-shaped reflectors, brought along</div>
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from house to house, their pasteboard</div>
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toy suitcases increasingly flimsy.</div>
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Tick, tick, the desiccated needles drop.</div>
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By suppertime all that remains is the scent</div>
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of balsam fir. If it's darkness</div>
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we're having, let it be extravagant.</div>
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<b>Journey of the Magi - TS Eliot</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> A cold coming we had of it,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Just the worst time of the year</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
For a journey, and such a long journey:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
The ways deep and the weather sharp,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
The very dead of winter.'</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And the camels galled, sorefooted, refractory,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Lying down in the melting snow.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
There were times we regretted</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
The summer palaces on slopes, the terraces,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And the silken girls bringing sherbet.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Then the camel men cursing and grumbling</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
and running away, and wanting their liquor and women,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And the night-fires going out, and the lack of shelters,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And the cities hostile and the towns unfriendly</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And the villages dirty and charging high prices:</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
A hard time we had of it.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
At the end we preferred to travel all night,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Sleeping in snatches,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
With the voices singing in our ears, saying</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
That this was all folly.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Then at dawn we came down to a temperate valley,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Wet, below the snow line, smelling of vegetation;</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
With a running stream and a water-mill beating the darkness,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And three trees on the low sky,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And an old white horse galloped away in the meadow.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Then we came to a tavern with vine-leaves over the lintel,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver,</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And feet kicking the empty wine-skins.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
But there was no information, and so we continued</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And arriving at evening, not a moment too soon</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Finding the place; it was (you might say) satisfactory.</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
All this was a long time ago, I remember,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And I would do it again, but set down</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
This set down</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
This: were we led all that way for</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
But had thought they were different; this Birth was</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Hard and bitter agony for us, like Death, our death.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
We returned to our places, these Kingdoms,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
With an alien people clutching their gods.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141823; font-family: Roboto,&quot; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
I should be glad of another death.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Zombie - Hadara Bar-Nadav</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A zombie is a head<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />with a hole in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Layers of plastic,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />putty, and crust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mindless<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />must be sated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mottled men who will<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />always return</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> mouthing wet <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> promises. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You rise already<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />harmed and follow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> my sad circle</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">as if dancing<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />on shattered legs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Shoeless, toeless,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />such tender absences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You come to me<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />ripped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> in linens and reds,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">eternal, autumnal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />with rust and wonder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My servant, sublimate<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />and I am yours</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">(the hot death<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />we would give each other).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My dark ardor,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />my dark augur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Love to the very open-<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />mouthed end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are made of<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />so much hunger.</span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-88197863812751930032019-10-29T09:00:00.000+00:002019-10-29T09:00:10.600+00:00Black Cat<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Are you superstitious of black cats? ?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Black Cat - Rainer Maria Rilke</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">your sight can knock on, echoing; but here</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">within this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">will be absorbed and utterly disappear:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">just as a raving madman, when nothing else</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">can ease him, charges into his dark night</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">howling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">the rage being taken in and pacified.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">into her, so that, like an audience,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">she can look them over, menacing and sullen,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">and curl to sleep with them. But all at once</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">and with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">inside the golden amber of her eyeballs</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;">suspended, like a prehistoric fly.</span></span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-17700118229452857442019-10-28T21:13:00.001+00:002019-10-28T21:13:25.059+00:00Ghosts<br />
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It's Halloween soon, which means some spooky poetry is called for!<br />
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<b><span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">Unbidden - Rae Armantrout</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">The ghost swarm.</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">They speak as one </span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">person. Each</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">loves you. Each</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">has left something</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">undone. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">*</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">Did the palo verde</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">blush yellow</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">all at once?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">Today's edges</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">are so sharp</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">they might cut</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">anything that moved. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">*</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">They way </span><span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">a lost </span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">word</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">will come back</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">unbidden.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">You're not interested</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">in it now,</span><br />
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<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">only </span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">in knowing</span><br />
<span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">where </span><span style="color: #002000; font-family: inherit;">it's been.</span><br />
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com72tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-64133584390095697142019-09-30T09:30:00.000+01:002019-09-30T09:30:02.263+01:00Lamps<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The nights are drawing in...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Lamps - Mary Oliver</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Eight o’clock, no later<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
You light the lamps,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The big one by the large window,<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
The small one on your desk.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">They are not to see by—<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
It’s still twilight out over the sand,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The scrub oaks and cranberries.<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
Even the small birds have not settled</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">For sleep yet, out of the reach<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
Of prowling foxes. No,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">You light the lamps because<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
You are alone in your small house</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">And the wicks sputtering gold<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
Are like two visitors with good stories</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">They will tell slowly, in soft voices,<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
While the air outside turns quietly</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">A grainy and luminous blue.<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
You wish it would never change—</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">But of course the darkness keeps<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
Its appointment. Each evening,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">An inscrutable presence, it has the final word<br style="border: 0px rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "rufina","baskerville","quot"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
Outside every door.</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="color: black;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-16082469094265781182019-09-09T20:36:00.001+01:002019-09-09T20:42:55.888+01:00Monday<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Image result for birds at windows" class="irc_mi" height="150" src="https://umbrellaservices.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Umbrella-Property-Services-Saving-Birds-From-Crashing-Into-Windows.jpg" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171); color: #1a0dab; font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" width="200" /><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">What better way to start the week than with Billy Collins? </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Monday - Billy Collins</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The birds are in their trees,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the toast is in the toaster,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
and the poets are at their windows.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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They are at their windows</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
in every section of the tangerine of earth-</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the Chinese poets looking up at the moon,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the American poets gazing out</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
at the pink and blue ribbons of sunrise.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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The clerks are at their desks,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the miners are down in their mines,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
and the poets are looking out their windows</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
maybe with a cigarette, a cup of tea,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
and maybe a flannel shirt or bathrobe is involved.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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The proofreaders are playing the ping-pong</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
game of proofreading,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
glancing back and forth from page to page,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the chefs are dicing celery and potatoes,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
and the poets are at their windows</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
because it is their job for which</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
they are paid nothing every Friday afternoon.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Which window it hardly seems to matter</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
though many have a favorite,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
for there is always something to see-</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
a bird grasping a thin branch,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the headlight of a taxi rounding a corner,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
those two boys in wool caps angling across the street.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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The fishermen bob in their boats,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the linemen climb their round poles,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
the barbers wait by their mirrors and chairs,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: auto; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
and the poets continue to stare</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
at the cracked birdbath or a limb knocke</span>d down by the wind.</span></span><br />
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By now, it should go without saying</span></span><br />
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that what the oven is to the baker</span><br />
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and the berry-stained blouse to the dry cleaner,</span><br />
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so the window is to the poet.</span><br />
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Just think-</span></span><br />
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the poets would have had to put on a jacket</span><br />
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and a winter hat to go outside</span><br />
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or remain indoors with only a wall to stare at.</span><br />
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And when I say a wall,</span></span><br />
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and a sketch of a cow in a frame.</span><br />
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I mean a cold wall of fieldstones,</span></span><br />
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the wall of the medieval sonnet,</span><br />
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the original woman's heart of stone,</span><br />
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the stone caught in the throat of her poet-lover.</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-27073012427549479372019-07-20T21:00:00.000+01:002019-07-20T22:27:34.145+01:00Moon Landing<br /><br /><br /><img alt="Image result for moon landing" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1563657648232" height="133" src="https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article11874341.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/This-picture-taken-20-July-1969-of-ast.jpg" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171); box-shadow: 0px 5px 35px rgba(0,0,0,0.65); display: block; margin: 0px 155.5px;" width="200" /><br />
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This day 50 years ago history was made when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Archibald MacLeish was the poet tasked with writing a poem for the occasion for the next day's New York Times. No easy feat!<br />
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Here it is:<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Presence among us,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
wanderer in the skies,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">dazzle of silver in our leaves and on our<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
waters silver,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">O</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">silver evasion in our farthest thought–<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
“the visiting moon” . . . “the glimpses of the moon” . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">and we have touched you!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">From the first of time,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
before the first of time, before the<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
first men tasted time, we thought of you.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
You were a wonder to us, unattainable,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
a longing past the reach of longing,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
a light beyond our light, our lives–perhaps<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
a meaning to us…</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Now</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">our hands have touched you in your depth of night.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Three days and three nights we journeyed,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
steered by farthest stars, climbed outward,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
crossed the invisible tide-rip where the floating dust<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
falls one way or the other in the void between,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
followed that other down, encountered<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
cold, faced death–unfathomable emptiness . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Then, the fourth day evening, we descended,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
made fast, set foot at dawn upon your beaches,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
sifted between our fingers your cold sand.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">We stand here in the dusk, the cold, the silence . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">and here, as at the first of time, we lift our heads.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Over us, more beautiful than the moon, a<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
moon, a wonder to us, unattainable,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
a longing past the reach of longing,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
a light beyond our light, our lives–perhaps<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
a meaning to us . . .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">O, a meaning!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">over us on these silent beaches the bright earth,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">presence among us.</span></div>
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<tr><td>than the way the sun,</td></tr>
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<tr><td>relaxed and easy,</td></tr>
<tr><td>floats toward the horizon<br />
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<tr><td>and is gone--</td></tr>
<tr><td>and how it slides again<br />
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<tr><td>on the other side of the world,</td></tr>
<tr><td>like a red flower<br />
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<tr><td>at its perfect imperial distance--</td></tr>
<tr><td>and have you ever felt for anything</td></tr>
<tr><td>such wild love--</td></tr>
<tr><td>do you think there is anywhere, in any language,</td></tr>
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<tr><td>as it warms you<br />
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<b>Consolation - Robert Louis Stevenson</b></div>
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Though he, that ever kind and true,
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Kept stoutly step by step with you,
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Your whole long, gusty lifetime through,
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Be gone a while before,
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Be now a moment gone before,
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Yet, doubt not, soon the seasons shall restore
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Your friend to you.
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He has but turned the corner — still
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He pushes on with right good will,
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Through mire and marsh, by heugh and hill,
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That self-same arduous way —
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That self-same upland, hopeful way,
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That you and he through many a doubtful day
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Attempted still.
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He is not dead, this friend — not dead,
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But in the path we mortals tread
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Got some few, trifling steps ahead
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And nearer to the end;
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So that you too, once past the bend,
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Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend
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You fancy dead.
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Push gaily on, strong heart! The while
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You travel forward mile by mile,
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He loiters with a backward smile
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Till you can overtake,
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And strains his eyes to search his wake,
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Or whistling, as he sees you through the brake,
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Waits on a stile.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; visibility: visible; white-space: pre; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="irc_mil i3597" data-ctbtn="2" data-cthref="/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiRt_3oj_vhAhWaRhUIHbpSBBEQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gardenia.net%2Fplant-variety%2Fsyringa-vulgaris-common-lilac&psig=AOvVaw0NBy8Sqv0Ytl9Qfu_PESgM&ust=1556827286236174" data-noload="" data-ved="2ahUKEwiRt_3oj_vhAhWaRhUIHbpSBBEQjRx6BAgBEAU" href="https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiRt_3oj_vhAhWaRhUIHbpSBBEQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gardenia.net%2Fplant-variety%2Fsyringa-vulgaris-common-lilac&psig=AOvVaw0NBy8Sqv0Ytl9Qfu_PESgM&ust=1556827286236174" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;focus:irc.rl" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Image result for lilac blossoms" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1556740914931" height="133" src="https://www.gardenia.net/rendition.slider_detail/uploads/plant_family/1539367284-bf48274f5a7958844/102990131_sOptimized.jpg" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171); box-shadow: 0px 5px 35px rgba(0,0,0,0.65); margin-top: 0px;" width="200" /></a><i></i>
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<i>May! <br /> In the open world <br />The sun comes and finds your face, <br /> Remembering all.</i></span></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></b><u style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></u><sub style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11.06px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></sub><sup style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 11.06px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></sup><strike style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: line-through; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"></strike><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<b>Follies - Carl Sandburg</b><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; visibility: visible; white-space: pre; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Shaken, <br />The blossoms of lilac, <br /> And shattered, <br />The atoms of purple. <br />Green dip the leaves, <br /> Darker the bark, <br />Longer the shadows. <br /> <br />Sheer lines of poplar <br />Shimmer with masses of silver <br />And down in a garden old with years <br />And broken walls of ruin and story, <br />Roses rise with red rain-memories. <br /> May! <br /> In the open world <br />The sun comes and finds your face, <br /> Remembering all.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-75676036869467555722019-04-11T09:30:00.000+01:002019-04-11T09:30:19.348+01:00Separated Selves<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>it is so long since my heart has been with yours - ee cummings</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">it is so long since my heart has been with yours</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 1px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="quote"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />shut by our mingling arms through<br />a darkness where new lights begin and<br />increase,<br />since your mind has walked into<br />my kiss as a stranger<br />into the streets and colours of a town—<br /><br />that i have perhaps forgotten<br />how,always(from<br />these hurrying crudities<br />of blood and flesh)Love<br />coins His most gradual gesture,<br /><br />and whittles life to eternity<br /><br />—after which our separating selves become museums<br />filled with skilfully stuffed memories</span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-7746076220332516372019-04-03T09:00:00.000+01:002019-04-03T09:00:02.536+01:00April<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>April - Ella Higginson</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">Ah, who is this with twinkling feet,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">With glad, young eyes and laughter sweet,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> Who tosses back her strong, wild hair,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> And saucy kisses flings to Care,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> The while she laughs at her? Beware—</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">You who this winsome maiden meet!</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">She dances on a daisied throne,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">About her waist a slender zone</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> Of dandelion’s gold; her eyes</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> Are softer than the summer skies,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> And blue as violets; and lies</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">A tearful laughter in her tone.</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">She reaches dimpled arms and bare;</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">Her breath is sweet as wild-rose air;</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> She sighs, she smiles, she glances down,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> Her brows meet in a sudden frown;</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> She laughs; then tears the violets drown—</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9; font-family: "poets electra web", "times new roman", Times, serif; font-size: 17px;">If you should meet her—ah, beware!</span>Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-65268202245880104632019-04-02T13:05:00.002+01:002019-04-02T19:54:17.466+01:00Spring Again<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Spring (Again) - Michael Ryan</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;">The birds were louder this morning,</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;">raucous, oblivious, tweeting their teensy bird-brains out.</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;">It scared me, until I remembered it’s Spring.</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;">How do they know it? A stupid question.</span><br style="background-color: #fcf9f9;" /><span style="background-color: #fcf9f9;">Thank you, birdies. I had forgotten how promise feels.</span></span>Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-20422313908148044802019-03-21T09:00:00.000+00:002019-03-21T09:00:01.032+00:00Spring Equinox<div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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Hello <span style="font-size: 16px;">Spring! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><b>Spring - Linda Pastan </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Just as we lose hope<br />
she ambles in,<br />
a late guest<br />
dragging her hem<br />
of wildflowers,<br />
her torn<br />
veil of mist,<br />
of light rain,<br />
blowing<br />
her dandelion<br />
breath <br />
in our ears;<br />
and we forgive her,<br />
turning from<br />
chilly winter <br />
ways,<br />
we throw off<br />
our faithful<br />
sweaters<br />
and open<br />
our arms.</span></div>
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<b>F</b><b>or the Anniversary of my Death - W.S. Merwin</b></div>
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Every year without knowing it I have passed the day </div>
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When the last fires will wave to me</div>
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And the silence will set out</div>
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Tireless traveler</div>
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Like the beam of a lightless star</div>
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Then I will no longer</div>
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Find myself in life as in a strange garment</div>
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Surprised at the earth</div>
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And the love of one woman</div>
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And the shamelessness of men</div>
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As today writing after three days of rain</div>
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Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease</div>
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And bowing not knowing to what</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-3798994433530669172019-03-16T20:26:00.000+00:002019-03-18T18:16:42.983+00:00RIP W.S. Merwin<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="irc_mil i3597" data-ctbtn="2" data-cthref="/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwifoqmuuofhAhWFtXEKHd3fCe8QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org%2Fpoetsorg%2Fpoet%2Fw-s-merwin&psig=AOvVaw0Bo3dh9OHeZarrKrsyC6uH&ust=1552852989601032" data-noload="" data-ved="2ahUKEwifoqmuuofhAhWFtXEKHd3fCe8QjRx6BAgBEAU" href="https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwifoqmuuofhAhWFtXEKHd3fCe8QjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.poets.org%2Fpoetsorg%2Fpoet%2Fw-s-merwin&psig=AOvVaw0Bo3dh9OHeZarrKrsyC6uH&ust=1552852989601032" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;focus:irc.rl" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Image result for ws merwin" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1552766604231" height="200" src="https://www.poets.org/sites/default/files/styles/286x289/public/images/biographies/WSMerwin_NewBioImage.png?itok=NqKOL2kl" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171); box-shadow: 0px 5px 35px rgba(0,0,0,0.65); margin-top: 32px;" width="197" /></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><i>W.S. Merwin 1927-2019, RIP</i></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There is always a certain sadness that befalls you when you hear of a poet's death. The world is quieter somehow, sullen, static, if but for a short space in time. Especially in the case of a poet who is dear to you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Since discovering W.S. Merwin, I have loved his poetry. He has quite an unique style - that lack of punctuation coupled with language as smooth as silk is always a beguiling combination. His poems are like intricate puzzles of thought and emotion; to decode them, you need simply be open to language's multi-shifting, shimmering nature. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If ever poetry can boast of slowing time and making you stop and think, Merwin's poems can surely do that. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">But perhaps The New York Times says it better in their <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/obituaries/w-s-merwin-dead-poet-laureate.html">obituary</a> today: "...<i>most reviewers praised his relentless</i> <i>deployment of poetry as a talisman against the void; the emotional ferocity beneath the cool, polished surface of his lines; and his use of language so pure and immediate that it could attain translucence." </i>That it did indeed and now the words remain, aglow. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">I will post some of my favourites of Merwin's poems this week. For now, if you would like to read more, just click on his name in the 'Labels' tags below. The following poem is taken from his 2016 collection '<i>The</i> <i>Moon Before Morning</i>'. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Variation on a Theme - W.S. Merwin</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Thank you my life long afternoon</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">late in this spring that has no age</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">my window above the river</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">for the woman you led me to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">when it was time at last the words</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">coming to me out of mid-air</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">that carried me through the clear day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and come even now to find me</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">for old friends and echoes of them</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">those mistakes only I could make</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">homesickness that guides the plovers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">from somewhere they had loved before</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">they knew they loved it to somewhere</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">they had loved before they saw it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">thank you good body hand and eye</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and the places and moments known</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">only to me revisiting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">once more complete just as they are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and the morning stars I have seen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "poets electra web" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and the dogs who are guiding me</span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
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<br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-17698623727404530792019-03-15T09:30:00.000+00:002019-03-15T09:30:03.293+00:00Hidden<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><a class="irc_mil i3597" data-ctbtn="2" data-cthref="/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjV29LKzvjgAhUlXhUIHXT4DAcQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3ABurren_Flora_11_Stone_fern_Asplenium_(3585325019).jpg&psig=AOvVaw0czz1lH7EbU9TNCqy05NOZ&ust=1552342973487350" data-noload="" data-ved="2ahUKEwjV29LKzvjgAhUlXhUIHXT4DAcQjRx6BAgBEAU" href="https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjV29LKzvjgAhUlXhUIHXT4DAcQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wikimedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFile%3ABurren_Flora_11_Stone_fern_Asplenium_(3585325019).jpg&psig=AOvVaw0czz1lH7EbU9TNCqy05NOZ&ust=1552342973487350" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;focus:irc.rl" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Image result for fern under a stone" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1552256640796" height="150" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Burren_Flora_11_Stone_fern_Asplenium_%283585325019%29.jpg" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171); box-shadow: 0px 5px 35px rgba(0,0,0,0.65); margin-top: 0px;" width="200" /></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Hidden - Naomi Shihab Nye</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><br /></b></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If you place a fern</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">under a stone</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the next day it will be</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">nearly invisible</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">as if the stone has </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">swallowed it.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If you tuck the name of a loved one</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">under your tongue too long</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">without speaking it</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">it becomes blood</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">sigh</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the little sucked-in breath of air</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">hiding everywhere</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">beneath your words.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">No one sees</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the fuel that feeds you.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-23236035680276285152019-03-14T09:30:00.000+00:002019-03-14T09:30:00.906+00:00Inessential Things<div style="text-align: center;">
<a class="irc_mil i3597" data-ctbtn="2" data-cthref="/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjw1Lr5zPjgAhUjTxUIHTivATgQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsbestcatlitter.com%2Fclearing-the-air%2F2016%2F11%2F6-interesting-facts-about-your-cats-sleeping-habits%2F&psig=AOvVaw3hwYaBmi4cI10137rK8t9L&ust=1552342574247354" data-noload="" data-ved="2ahUKEwjw1Lr5zPjgAhUjTxUIHTivATgQjRx6BAgBEAU" href="https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjw1Lr5zPjgAhUjTxUIHTivATgQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldsbestcatlitter.com%2Fclearing-the-air%2F2016%2F11%2F6-interesting-facts-about-your-cats-sleeping-habits%2F&psig=AOvVaw3hwYaBmi4cI10137rK8t9L&ust=1552342574247354" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;focus:irc.rl" rel="noopener" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-bottom-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(26, 13, 171); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" tabindex="0" target="_blank"><img alt="Image result for cat sleeping" class="irc_mi" data-iml="1552256202087" height="100" src="https://www.worldsbestcatlitter.com/clearing-the-air/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cat-sleeping-habits-blog-858x429.jpg" style="background-color: white; background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)), -webkit-linear-gradient(45deg, rgb(239, 239, 239) 25%, transparent 25%, transparent 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239) 75%, rgb(239, 239, 239)); background-position: 0px 0px, 10px 10px; background-size: 21px 21px; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(26, 13, 171); box-shadow: 0px 5px 35px rgba(0,0,0,0.65); margin-top: 0px;" width="200" /></a><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<b>Inessential Things - Brian Patten</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">What do cats remember of days?</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">They remember the ways in from the cold,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The warmest spot, the place of food.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">They remember the places of pain, their enemies,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the irritation of birds, the warm fumes of the soil,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the usefulness of dust.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">They remember the creak of a bed, the sound</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">of their owner´s footsteps,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">the taste of fish, the loveliness of cream.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Cats remember what is essential of days.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Letting all other memories go as of no worth</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">they sleep sounder than we,</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">whose hearts break remembering so many</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; clear: none; color: #242f33; display: inline; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; margin: 0px; max-width: none; orphans: 2; position: static; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: #242f33; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 0.16px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">inessential things.</span></span><br />
<br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-43882582691741339712019-03-13T09:30:00.000+00:002019-03-13T09:30:01.339+00:00Forest<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); color: #353c3a; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 32px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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This new poem from Carol Ann Duffy celebrates trees. Read more about it <a href="https://www.forestryengland.uk/tributes">here</a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Forest - Carol Ann Duffy</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In fact, the trees are murmuring under your feet,<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
a buried empathy; you tread it.<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
High over your head,<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
the canopy sieves light; a conversation<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
you lip-read. The forest<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
keeps different time;<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
slow hours as long as your life,<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
so you feel human.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So you feel more human; persuaded what you are<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
by wordless breath of wood, reason in resin.<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
You might name them-<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
oak, ash, holly, beech, elm-<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
but the giants are silence alive, superior,<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
and now you are all instinct;<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
swinging the small lamp of your heart<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
as you venture their world:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">the green, shadowy, garlic air<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
your ancestors breathed.<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
Ah, you thought love human<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
till you lost yourself in the forest,<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
but it is more strange.<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
These grave and patient saints<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
who pray and pray<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
and suffer your little embrace.<br style="border-image: none; border: 0px rgb(53, 60, 58); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />
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<b>A Reward - Denise Levertov</b></div>
Tired and hungry, late in the day, impelled<br />
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to leave the house and search for what<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
might lift me back to what I had fallen away from,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I stood by the shore waiting.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I had walked in the silent woods:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
the trees withdrew into their secrets.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Dusk was smoothing breadths of silk<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
over the lake, watery amethyst fading to gray.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
Ducks were clustered in sleeping companies<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
afloat on their element as I was not<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
on mine. I turned homeward, unsatisfied.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
But after a few steps, I paused, impelled again<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
to linger, to look North before nightfall-the expanse<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
of calm, of calming water, last wafts<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
of rose in the few high clouds.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
And was rewarded:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
the heron, unseen for weeks, came flying<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
widewinged toward me, settled<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
just offshore on his post,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
took up his vigil.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
If you ask<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
why this cleared a fog from my spirit,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
I have no answer.</div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-27177146227132672672019-03-11T09:30:00.000+00:002019-03-11T09:30:13.867+00:00Darling Coffee<div style="text-align: center;">
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A good Monday poem - remember to look out for those '<i>small happenings</i>.' </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b>Darling Coffee - Meena Alexander</b></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b></b><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The periodic pleasure</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">of small happenings</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">is upon us—</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">behind the stalls</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">at the farmer’s market</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">snow glinting in heaps,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">a cardinal its chest</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">puffed out, bloodshod</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">above the piles of awnings,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">passion’s proclivities;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">you picking up a sweet potato</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">turning to me ‘This too?’—</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">query of tenderness</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">under the blown red wing.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Remember the brazen world?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Let’s find a room</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">with a window onto elms</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">strung with sunlight,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">a cafe with polished cups,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">darling coffee they call it,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">may our bed be stoked</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">with fresh cut rosemary</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">and glinting thyme,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">all herbs in due season</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">tucked under wild sheets:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">fit for the conjugation of joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2028456146808767313.post-24249004756227835072019-02-16T09:30:00.000+00:002019-02-16T14:01:41.094+00:00The Toothbrush and the Bicycle Tyre<div style="text-align: center;">
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You can watch this poem performed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIAQENsqcuM">here</a><br />
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<b>A Love Letter from the Toothbrush to the Bicycle Tire - Sarah Key</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">They told me that I was meant for the cleaner life</span></span><br />
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That you would drag me through the mud</span></span></div>
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They said that you would tread all over me</span></span><br />
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That they could see right through you</span></span></div>
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That you were full of hot air</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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That I would always be chasing</span></div>
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Always watching you disappear after sleeker models</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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That it would be a vicious cycle</span></div>
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But I know better</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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I know about your rough edges</span></div>
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And I have seen your perfect curves</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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I will fit into whatever spaces you let me</span></div>
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If loving you means getting dirty</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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Bring on the grime</span></div>
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I will leave this porcelain home behind</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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I'm used to twice a day relationships</span></div>
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But with you, I'll take all the time</span></div>
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And I know that we live in different worlds</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
And we're always really busy</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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But in my dreams</span></div>
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You spin around me so fast</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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I always wake up dizzy</span></div>
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So, maybe one day</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><div>
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You'll grow tired of the road</span></div>
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And roll on back to me</span></div>
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And when I blink my eyes into morning</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; clear: none; color: rgba(51, 51, 51, 1); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; outline: transparent 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgba(51 , 51 , 51 , 1); display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 19.6px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Your smile will be the only one I see.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />
<br />Siobhánhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11146329432858420431noreply@blogger.com2