I ... entered the poem of life, whose purpose is ... simply to witness the beauties of the world, to discover the many forms that love can take. (Barabara Blackman in 'Glass After Glass')

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Showing posts with label Jane Hirshfield. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Hirshfield. Show all posts

10 May 2015

Go or Stay?

The quiet morning
is full of light.

If I go out into the air with you,
even though I come back alone

I shall be full of the noises
of other people: cacophony

of trying to be happy
away from the silence of being.

You, though, do all things
to make others bloom into joy.

I shall go to meet you,
as if carrying roses.


Mini-challenge, from 'imaginary garden with real toads': to write in the style of Jane Hirshfield. I wonder if I have succeeded?