this powerful poem led me to find another lovely one by this great modern Christian mystic;
AND a cool photo of him twirling an umbrella.
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Amanda Gorman is rightly the "poet of the day", this post-Inauguration Thursday, but I want to share a Comment under my re-posting of Maya Angelou's masterpiece on my Facebook page yesterday (as I...

You've outdone yourself today, Larry old boy!
THANK you!
THANK you, Maya Angelou!
(THIS is what the Silence is saying!
THIS IS our salvation!
This is the cure for all our ills,
I do believe!)...

Wonderful! Grateful for such a perfectly-articulated "Firstie" for 2021!
And what a visionary phot! Best one yet!
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This poem makes its point.
Here's the lyric to a song by a friend of mine, about how masks reveal the SOUL, the Universal, more than faces do without masks! I find it very interesting! There's a...

Always happy to see this poem, and always try to pass it on as much as I can.
I agree it's one of the most important, most universal poems of our time...
the most "Medicine" in a short poem, that...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-BT6y_wYg&feature=emb_logoAnd even greater on this video, I think...right now, it feels as if this is the greatest 8-minutes of video I've ever seen. The WONDERFUL...

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Certainly echoes my sentiments. I tried to promote "This Land Is Your Land" as a new national anthem, a few years back. And I designed a new flag, too. It had people's faces on it, all ethnicities,...

Nobel Prize for his poetry (lyrics) RICHLY deserved! :heart:


A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers’ blood
A finger fired the trigger to his name
A handle hid out in the dark
A...

"Do not reach out your hands.
Reach out your heart."
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Nicely done! I wrote something with a similar sentiment, a couple years ago:
DRIVERS' SACRAMENT

The ancient Romans built shrines at crossroads, and then the life and death of Jesus further...

EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT. NEWS THAT STAYS NEWS! Larry has his pulse on the Present Moment. This poetry, in the face of an absurd parody of "Justice" in the US, is HOT with vitality! As long as there...

I LOVE the specificity of your poem! Yes! It's in the concrete things we love, that we are saved! :heart:

AND: I wrote a whole poem about Paul Newman's eyes (etc), after he died, and it was in the...

Beautiful, Kay! Like a personal checklist!
Every line remains alive!
A real service to a reader!
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Wow, this one is SO simple, SO succinct.
It covers God, Intuition, Buddha-Nature, or whatever one might call it or not call it!
Just don't let go the thread!
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What a powerful poem!

Leonard Cohen used the same images to decry the slaughter of part of a generation in the Vietnam era, in his song "Story of Isaac." Here are the lyrics of the first 3 verses...

AMEN!
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And add this one to it, as well!


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I know the voice of depression
Still calls to you.

WONDERFUL choice! :heart:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk

Here is the song on YouTube One of the most memorable from childhood! I can tell because of the indelible memory of it, and...

Love it! Great lines! :heart:

Lovely; and for me, timely.
Maybe a poem like this is always timely...

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I'm listening on mp3 to Ann Patchett's novel, Run. Yesterday I heard a very moving passage in which an 11 year-old African-American girl named Kenya muses on the differences in opportunity between...

Very fine! Very much appreciated! In my opinion, an iconic poem for our time. One of those poems that gets inside me and reveals some of my private train of thought! I will share this onward (giving...

I love this one! I first heard it in 1968, recited by a man who called himself "The Great Lorenzo" and went around the country in a van with his female partner, reciting great poems by heart in...

This is terrific; just what we need! A great service! Someone has finally said it just right!
A fellow has been urging me to "pray for the President," and I did, experimentally...but not for the...

At around age 50, I ended up "back" in my home town for a couple years. Recognizing I had to "take my life" in the positive way, ie claim it, I began taking small positive steps. Practically as long...

Came to me just now like the answer to a prayer! :waccosun:
(Now let's see what I can do with it...
put it on my fridge, for one; but THAT'S not enough! How do you internalize something, for real,...

Had not read the poem but saw all the comments coming in.
It is indeed a sublime poem.
The Parsis in India (and I think Zoroastrians in Iran, if there are any left), also practice leaving the body...

Ah, Brecht...worth your weight in gold as a poet, just for this poem, if one never sees another. The greatest "time capsule" ever penned, imo. If we think we have problems... and yet, fittingly...

He was a Deep River.

'bout says it, I think.

good choice, Larry. We have indeed hit another such time...different in the particulars, but I think not in the essence. time to persevere with :heart:

this is beautiful, and so universal!
When I was a kid in the '50s in a suburb of St. Louis (should write something about this),
old Miss Rossi, the kind Principal of Flynn Park School, surrounded...

thanks! put me right where I belong, mercifully small in the great Cosmic One.:waccosun:

perfect.

I love it! An Open Secret about figs! :): Wish the heck I could find some, the only big tree around here is all picked, nothin' on the ground at all! She is one of my favorite poets, but I sent her...

takes me there! thanks for the wings! \♥/

wow, love this esp!:

powerful poem! Thank you!
brings this to mind (allied in spirit)

And the breath of God, through the Masters and saints,
brought the rains and the sun in due season.
And when floods came or...

love this one, had it on our fridge! :heart:

chilling! powerful image, I love the image of the safety of the dugout.

The lines about angry dads also call to mind the Texas mom who tried to arrange the murder of her daughter's cheerleader...

A series of 7 Frost poems were set to music by Randall Thompson, as some of you likely know, and are known as "Frostiana". In my high school Concert Choir, we sang this one and "The Road Not Taken"....

This guy is really good. Gets the "catalogue" of what not to be dissuaded by just right, imo.
Printing out. Putting on our fridge.
The ultimate compliment!
Thanks, Larry. Thanks Mark.
(Oops!...

below, a brief summary of the short, tragic life of Osip Mandlestram.
"Only in Russia is poetry respected, it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for...

Gee, I've seen some lovely dawns in New York!
Still, I know what he's getting at. The poem makes its point well, powerful images.
Just saying, there's another side too... :wink:

I HAVE to quote the little poem Alan Watts made famous, which my heart soaked up word for word and which I imagine accounts for the title David Whyte used:

"I asked the boy beneath the pines.
He...

thank you, gutsy and powerful! Gives solace to readers, who may not be ready to admit such things. Corresponds with much of my own experience, and also with Thomas Merton's lovely sentence,
"Prayer...

♥ ॐ love and prayers

I love this poem! One (meaning I) usually thinks of Auden as a "public poet" somehow, mainly. But as a love poet he can be sublime! Here's another one which a friend sent me recently:

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Beautiful. Thank you!
Sharing it onward.
Blessed [and Blessing!] Christmas!