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Category Archives: Poetry
‘They tend to tell you rather than exemplify…’
To be a giant and keep quiet about it, To stay in one’s own place; To stand for the constant presence of process And always to seem the same; To be steady as a rock and always trembling, Having the … Continue reading
Primary Wonder
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; cap and bells. And … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photos, Poetry, Quotation, wonder
Tagged Denise Levertov, God, mystery, poetry, Primary Wonder, sunrise
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VI
We travellers, walking to the sun, can’t see Ahead, but looking back the very light That blinded us shows us the way we came, Along which blessings now appear, risen As if from sightlessness to sight, and we, By blessing … Continue reading
The Forest & Our Inconsolable Longing
“But even if I find my way out of the first, I shall be left with the inconsolable memory of the treasure I went into the forest to find and never found, and which was not there and perhaps is … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Book, Poetry, Questions
Tagged poetry, T.S.Eliot, The Cocktail Party, treasure, Tree
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Collected Thoughts on Grass
“The Wish to be Generous” by Wendell Berry All that I serve will die, all my delights, the flesh kindled from my flesh, garden and field, the silent lilies standing in the woods, the woods, the hill, the whole earth, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photos, Poetry, Quotation
Tagged David Crowder, death, dew, grass, life, Poem, Wendell Berry
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The Sun
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone— and how … Continue reading
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a … Continue reading
Posted in Photos, Poetry
Tagged life, manifesto, rebellion, resurrection, Tree, Wendell Berry
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Planting Trees
In the mating of trees, the pollen grain entering invisible the domed room of the winds, survives the ghost of the old forest that was here when we came. The ground invites it, and it will not be gone. I … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Photos, Poetry, Reflections
Tagged death, future, life, photograph, Poem, seed, trees, Wendall Berry
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After Augustine
Sunshine let it be or frost, Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost, Thee Thyself we could not lose. “After Augustine,” by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861–1907)
Posted in Photos, Poetry, Quotation
Tagged Hope, Jesus, Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, Poem, Suffering
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