Posted by Sigismund on April 18, 2009, at 15:06:13
In reply to Re: Poet Laureate 2008 » Sigismund, posted by fayeroe on April 18, 2009, at 12:27:46
That's certainly good enough to quote here. I just loved it. Thanks, Pat.
When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purseto buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.When its over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.When its over, I dont want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I dont want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.I dont want to end up simply having visited this world.
~ Mary Oliver ~
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