endings, and beginnings

Jul 15, 2011 00:08

Late October by Maya Angelou ( Read more... )

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anthologie July 16 2011, 04:16:09 UTC
Lovely. <3

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chelidon July 16 2011, 05:23:21 UTC
Thank you! I'd like to say I've known it for years, but I first ran across that poem earlier this year in the back of a book of prayer in a Unitarian church in Boston (Unitarians are so cool ;>), where Claudia and I were seeing Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas play in April. I opened the book, and there it was -- so perfect, a message from the gods. Spring is the time of obvious new life, but of course Fall is when endings begin, and when new beginnings are born. A lot of poetry is crap...just words. But the true ones...ah. Yeah. :)

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swansister October 25 2012, 15:34:24 UTC
Beautiful and fitting.

I always remember an old flame each Autumn....

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