Month: December 2019
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History Of The Enlightenment
Faith was a dream technologybut one we couldn’t master, or do coldand it soon became equivocal again.Mountains got moved by money or the lashand we started to insult faithas if it might be piqued and after allkick in that sacred phase-shiftwhere cancers vanish, and thegolden brown in their antique clothesenlarge from photograph size, walkingtoward us, […]
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A Brief Note on Method
Socrates: I cannot help feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations of the painter have the attitude of life, and yet if you ask them a question they preserve a solemn silence. And the same may be said of speeches. You would imagine that they had intelligence, but if you want […]
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Christmas Eve
Christmas has a darknessBrighter than the blazing noon,Christmas has a chillnessWarmer than the heat of June,Christmas has a beautyLovelier than the world can show:For Christmas bringeth Jesus,Brought for us so low. Earth, strike up your music,Birds that sing and bells that ring;Heaven has answering musicFor all angels soon to sing:Earth, put on your whitestBridal robe […]
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I started Early – Took my Dog
I started Early – Took my Dog –And visited the Sea –The Mermaids in the BasementCame out to look at me – And Frigates – in the Upper FloorExtended Hempen Hands –Presuming Me to be a Mouse –Aground – opon the Sands – But no Man moved Me – till the TideWent past my simple Shoe –And past my Apron – and […]
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The Meaning of Existence
Everything except language knows the meaning of existence. Trees, planets, rivers, time know nothing else. They express it moment by moment as the universe. Even this fool of a body lives it in part, and would have full dignity within it but for the ignorant freedom of my talking mind. Les Murray
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Predawn in Health
The stars are filtering through a tree outside in the moon’s silent era. Reality is moving layer over layer like crystal spheres now called laws. The future is right behind your head; just over all horizons is the past. The soul sits looking at its offer. Les Murray
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Glee—the Great Storm Is Over
GLEE! the great storm is over! Four have recovered the land; Forty gone down together Into the boiling sand. Ring, for the scant salvation! Toll, for the bonnie souls,— Neighbor and friend and bridegroom, Spinning upon the shoals! How they will tell the shipwreck When winter shakes the door, Till the children ask, “But the […]
Dan Yingst 