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17 November 2013

This Moment

Elbow near her water

bowl on the radiator,

I face this white screen

and cat drinks, rests her head and

snores gently, then laps again.

Posted at Poets United Poetry Pantry #176

and at Open Link Monday at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads.

THE PEACE of WILD THINGS

by Wendell Berry

When despair grows in me
and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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17 November 2013

This Moment

Posted at Poets United Poetry Pantry #176

and at Open Link Monday at Imaginary Garden with Real Toads.

Copyright © 2013 S.L.Chast

Poetry of a changing Earth. The grief is real–so is the hope.

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