Funny, how of all the poets this one comes to my attention again; I just recently copied several of her poems into a journal I keep, poems I read in a library book I'd checked out. I didn't want the whole book, else I would have just ordered a copy for myself; but there were a few 'religious' poems that struck me and I wanted to save them. I do have that Rilke poem, I went through my mad Rilke phase and have so many of his poetry books, ha. But here is one of Denise Levertov's poems I copied
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You're welcome; and here's yet one more of hers that I copied, written from the pov of the fig tree in that famous Bible story/parable which so many people still discuss and argue about; was Jesus out of character, cursing the poor tree as he did, or did the 'tree' in this poem have the right of it
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Lovely poems.
I had to read the second one
several times to decide
whether i like it.
I like it!
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