Tuesday, February 8, 2011

On Being

These two poems were very meaningful to me today, thought I’d share them---




On Being

By Denise Levertov


I know this happiness

is provisional



                    the looming presences-

                   great suffering, great fear-



                   withdraw only

                   into peripheral vision:



but ineluctable this shimmering

of wind in the blue leaves:



this flood of stillness

widening the lake of sky:



this need to dance,

this need to knee:

                         this mystery:



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