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« Thread Started on Mar 18, 2008, 11:41pm » | |
Leaves of Grass (1871-72)
I SIT AND LOOK OUT.
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world,
and upon all oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at an-
guish with themselves, remorseful after deeds
done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children,
dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the
treacherous seducer of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love,
attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the
earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see
martyrs and prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting
lots who shall be kill'd, to preserve the lives of
the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant
persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon ne-
groes, and the like;
All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I
sitting, look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.
-Walt Whitman
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« Reply #1 on Mar 18, 2008, 11:42pm » | |
~Time and trials wear away at every person until the superficial crumbles, and what remains is a lasting monument of what we have left. As little as it may be~
- Anonymous
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« Reply #2 on Mar 18, 2008, 11:43pm » | |
Soon shall my fate that wish fulfill;
And I shall sleep without the dream
Of what I was, and would be still
Dark as to thee my deeds may seem:
My memory now is but the tomb,
Of joys long dead; my hope, their doom:
Though better to have died with those,
Than bear a life of lingering woes.
~ Lord Byron.
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« Reply #3 on Mar 18, 2008, 11:44pm » | |
Do not stand at my grave and weep;
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry;
I am not there. I did not die.
- Mary Elizabeth Frye
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« Reply #4 on Mar 28, 2008, 3:20am » | |
The words of H. G. Wells, a man who studied the past, fought for the present, and dreamed of the future. And here is what Wells had to say, in 1936, on the human enterprise:
"Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still, he will be beginning."
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« Reply #5 on Mar 28, 2008, 3:51am » | |
Halley's Comet
Kenneth Rexroth
When in your middle years
The great comet comes again
Remember me, a child,
Awake in the summer night,
Standing in my crib and
Watching that long-haired star
So many years ago.
Go out in the dark and see
Its plume over water
Dribbling on the liquid night,
And think that life and glory
Flickered on the rushing
Bloodstream for me once, and for
All who have gone before me,
Vessels of the billion-year-long
River that flows now in your veins.
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« Reply #6 on Mar 28, 2008, 3:53am » | |
Acknowledgment
Donna Steiner
The sky opens like a clamshell,
the pearl-white sun a blur.
Late winter is surreal. Like
a parent humming Sinatra
on the anniversary
of a death that left you
feeling overgrown and divided.
Like a ladder on the lawn.
At dinner last night my friends
were filled with wanderlust
except for one who said "nope,
not me, give me home any day"
and I don't know, with all these
angels and ordinariness you'd think
I'd be happier. But I'm still
lonely and transparent, like the
spider on the skylight, trying
to figure out what's between that
fragile body and the wild,
bruised sky.
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« Reply #7 on Mar 28, 2008, 4:14am » | |
Leaves
Sara Teasdale
One by one, like leaves from a tree,
All my faiths have forsaken me;
But the stars above my head
Burn in white and delicate red,
And beneath my feet the earth
Brings the sturdy grass to birth.
I who was content to be
But a silken-singing tree,
But a rustle of delight
In the wistful heart of night---
I have lost the leaves that knew
Touch of rain and weight of dew.
Blinded by a leafy crown
I looked neither up nor down---
But the little leaves that die
Have left me room to see the sky;
Now for the first time I know
Stars above and earth below.
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« Reply #8 on Dec 27, 2008, 4:22pm » | |
The stars like dust encircle me
In living mists of light
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight
- Isaac Asimov - The Stars Like Dust
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« Reply #9 on Dec 27, 2008, 4:48pm » | |
Kurt Vonnegut:
"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God. It is so extraordinarily full of magic and in tough times of my life I can listen to music and it makes such a difference"
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« Reply #10 on Jun 24, 2009, 3:55pm » | |
A Clear Midnight
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou
lovest best,
Night, sleep, death and the stars.
~ Walt Whitman
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« Reply #11 on Jul 22, 2009, 3:05pm » | |
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
~ John Magee
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