Tag: Les Murray
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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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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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