May 2012
26 posts
I'm so uncomfortable
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The Swan
Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -
An armful of white blossoms,
A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned
into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,
Biting the air with its black beak?
Did you hear it, fluting and whistling
A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees -...
The ablest navigators: save the only life you... →
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The Journey (Mary Oliver)
One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice - - - though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. ‘Mend my life!’ each voice cried. But you didn’t stop.
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I know you wanted someone else for company, but you’ve got me
And you could give me grief about the divide, that is oceans wide.
O I know I know I know, well I learn pretty quickly. That’s just the way things go you said
An horse
In life there is only one certain happiness-living...
Family Happiness by Tolstoy
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