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Known unto God...
Just stopping by because I promised myself when I started posting on LJ that this journal would be, too, a way for me to keep in mind things that are important to me... and Remembrance Day is one of these things...
This year I'm all the more filled with a feeling of contemplation that I visited on Monday with Tim's class the trenches of the Somme ( Read more... ) -
Irony of irony...
So I was bored tonight... and against my better judgement I snagged this from theapink
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If you were coming in the fall ( Read more... ) -
Infirm.
I loved this poem secretsolitaire posted on her journal yesterday, I loved it so much that I'm reposting here with her permission... I hope you'll like it too ;-)
Infirm
by Gwendolyn Brooks
Everybody here
is infirm.
Everybody here is infirm.
Oh. Mend me. Mend me. Lord.
Today I
say to them
say to them
say to them, Lord:
look! I am beautiful, beautiful with
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Luis de Leon
I am in a Spanish mood it seems...
To Retirement
At last, 0 thou serene retreat
From all my wanderings! Thou balm desired
So long, that bringst me healing sweet
From wounds naught else can heal! Inspired
Seclusion, gracious welcome for the tired!
At last, thou little thatch of straw
Beneath whose eaves no lurking Care hath stayed,
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John of the Cross
The Obscure Night of the Soul
Upon an obscure night
Fevered with love in love's anxiety
(O hapless-happy plight!),
I went, none seeing me,
Forth from my house where all things be.
By night, secure from sight,
And by the secret stair, disguisedly,
(O hapless-happy plight!)
By night, and privily,
Forth from my house where all things quiet be.
Blest night of ( Read more... )
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