Poetry
by Lael Johnson · updated 1d ago
Poetry
by Lael Johnson · updated 1d ago
Lael Johnson added 1d ago
You see, I want a lot.
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent.
So many are alive who don't seem to care.
Casual, easy, they move in the world
as though untouched.
But you take pleasure in the faces
of those who know they thirst.
You cherish those
who grip you for survival.
You are not dead yet, it's not too
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The Gardener”
Have I lived enough?
Have I loved enough?
Have I considered Right Action enough, have I come to any conclusions?
Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
Have I endured loneliness with grace? I say this, or perhaps I’m just thinking it.
Actually, I probably think too much
. Then I step out into the garden, where the garde
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The End and the Beginning
By Wisława Szymborska
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
Someone has to push the rubble
to the side of the road,
so the corpse-filled wagons
can pass.
Someone has to get mired
in scum and ashes,
sofa springs,
splintered glass,
and bloody rags.
Someone has to drag in a girder
to prop
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I’m not giving up, not now, not ever.
No matter what the world throws my way, I'll fight its in my soul.
When no one else believes, I’ll fight and fight
When it feels like there’s nothing left in the tank, I’ll dig deeper than the rest.
I won’t give up, not now, not ever.
So, world, look out
I’m coming back stronger, tougher, and better than ever.
Lael Johnson added 25d ago
Could rules of poetry inform paragraphs?
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
—Mary Oliver
Lael Johnson added 1mo ago
"Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?"
— Mary Oliver
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