Tag: poetry
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A Hundred White Daffodils
A blustery day, warm and windy. The clouds are thickening and there will be rain tonight. Early this morning there was a good deal of bird song that quietened when the wind rose. I’m not sure whether there was less song or whether the wind drowned it out, or both. In the yard, the first…
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Reading Jane Kenyon
A cloudy, warmish day, quite a change from recent weeks. Maybe some showers later. Perhaps a walk this afternoon. I’ve been reading Jane Kenyon’s Collected Poems. She lived the last couple of decades of her leukemia shortened life in a New Hampshire valley. Her house, the weather, farming, the natural world, pets, and her relationship…
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Jonah and the Whale
Fleeing the Creator Jonah lept into the water and was engulfed by a whale In whose belly he fell into a dream or maybe a vision. When the whale grew tired of nurturing him And threw him up, Jonah swam to dry land The place of refuge And began to tell the people, Those who…
