July 2011
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Watch“Place” and “Blueberries After Dark” - written and read by W.S. Merwin, U.S. Poet Laureate, on May 2, 2011 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “PLACE” On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not for the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the one that was planted I want the tree that stands in the earth for the first time with the sun...
music: “across the great oceans” by...
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music: Jerry Douglas - We Hide And Seek
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"transcience"
nay, do not grieve tho’ life be full of sadness,
dawn will not veil her spleandor for your grief,
nor spring deny their bright, appointed beauty
to lotus blossom and ashoka leaf.
nay, do not pine, tho’ life be dark with trouble,
time will not pause or tarry on his way;
to-day that seems so long, so strange, so bitter,
will soon be some forgotten yesterday.
nay, do not weep;...
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wear your love like heaven….
"beginning" by james wright
beginning the moon drops one or two feathers into the field. the dark wheat listens. be still. now. there they are, the moon’s young, trying their wings. between trees, a slender woman lifts up the lovely shadow of her face, and now she steps into the air, now she is gone wholly, into the air. i stand alone by an elder tree, i do not dare breathe or move. i listen. the wheat leans back...
The Gardener of Eden - poem by James Broughton
I am the old dreamer who never sleeps
I am timekeeper of the timeless dance
I preserve the long rhythms of the earth
and fertilize the rounds of desire
In my evergreen arboretum
I raise flowering hopes for the world
I plant seeds of perennial affection
and wait for their passionate bloom
Would you welcome that sight if you saw it?
Revalue the view you have lost?
Could you wake...
