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		<title>Check out the Amazing No No Hair Removal System</title>
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		<title>The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Thou ill-form&rsquo;d offspring of my feeble brain, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Who after birth didst by my side remain, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Who thee abroad, expos&rsquo;d to publick view, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Made thee in raggs, halting to th&rsquo; press to trudge, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Where errors were not lessened (all may judg). </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>At thy return my blushing was not small, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>My rambling brat (in print) should mother call, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I cast thee by as one unfit for light, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Thy Visage was so irksome in my sight; </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Yet being mine own, at length affection would </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Thy blemishes amend, if so I could: </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I wash&rsquo;d thy face, but more defects I saw, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I stretched thy joynts to make thee even feet, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Yet still thou run&rsquo;st more hobling then is meet; </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>In better dress to trim thee was my mind, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>But nought save home-spun Cloth, i&rsquo; th&rsquo; house I find. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>In this array &rsquo;mongst Vulgars mayst thou roam. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>In Criticks hands, beware thou dost not come; </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And take thy way where yet thou art not known, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none: </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And for thy Mother, she alas is poor, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Which caus&rsquo;d her thus to send thee out of door.</div>
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		<title>Snow-flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of the bosom of the Air, &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Over the harvest-fields forsaken, &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Silent, and soft, and slow &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Descends the snow. Even as our cloudy fancies take &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Suddenly &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenmcgookey.com/snow-flakes-by-henry-wadsworth-longfellow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Out of the bosom of the Air, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Over the woodlands brown and bare, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the harvest-fields forsaken, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Silent, and soft, and slow </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Descends the snow. </div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Even as our cloudy fancies take </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Suddenly shape in some divine expression, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Even as the troubled heart doth make </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the white countenance confession, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The troubled sky reveals </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The grief it feels. </div>
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>This is the poem of the air, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Slowly in silent syllables recorded; </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>This is the secret of despair, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Now whispered and revealed </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To wood and field.</div>
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		<title>Listen. Put on Morning by W. S. Graham</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen. Put on morning. Waken into falling light. A man&#8217;s imagining Suddenly may inherit The handclapping centuries Of his one minute on earth. And hear the virgin juries Talk with his own breath To the corner boys of his street. &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenmcgookey.com/listen-put-on-morning-by-w-s-graham/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Listen. Put on morning.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Waken into falling light.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> A man&rsquo;s imagining</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Suddenly may inherit</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> The handclapping centuries</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Of his one minute on earth. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And hear the virgin juries</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Talk with his own breath</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> To the corner boys of his street.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And hear the Black Maria</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Searching the town at night.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And hear the playropes caa</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> The sister Mary in.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And hear Willie and Davie</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Among bracken of Narnain</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Sing in a mist heavy</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> With myrtle and listeners.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And hear the higher town</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Weep a petition of fears</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> At the poorhouse close upon</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> The public heartbeat.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And hear the children tig</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And run with my own feet</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Into the netting drag</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Of a suiciding principle.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Listen. Put on lightbreak.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Waken into miracle.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> The audience lies awake</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Under the tenements</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Under the sugar docks</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Under the printed moments.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> The centuries turn their locks</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And open under the hill</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Their inherited books and doors</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> All gathered to distil</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Like happy berry pickers</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> One voice to talk to us. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Yes listen. It carries away</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> The second and the years</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Till the heart&rsquo;s in a jacket of snow</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And the head&rsquo;s in a helmet white</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> And the song sleeps to be wakened</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> By the morning ear bright.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Listen. Put on morning.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'> Waken into falling light.</div>
<p><br/><br/>W. S. Graham, &ldquo;Listen. Put on Morning&rdquo; from <em>Selected Poems</em>. Copyright &copy; 1980 by W. S. Graham. Reprinted by permission of The Estate of W.S. Graham.<br/><br/>Source: <em><em>Selected Poems</em></em> (Ecco Press, 1980)</em><br/><br/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PoetryFoundation/PoemOfTheDayText/~4/VKHmVhEbLYs" height="1" width="1"/><br />
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		<title>The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>One must have a mind of winter </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>To regard the frost and the boughs </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; </div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And have been cold a long time </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>To behold the junipers shagged with ice, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>The spruces rough in the distant glitter </div>
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Of the January sun; and not to think </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Of any misery in the sound of the wind, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>In the sound of a few leaves, </div>
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Which is the sound of the land </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Full of the same wind </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>That is blowing in the same bare place </div>
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>For the listener, who listens in the snow, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And, nothing himself, beholds </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.</div>
<p><br/><br/>Wallace Stevens, &#8220;The Snow Man&#8221; from <em>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens</em>. Copyright &copy; 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens.&nbsp; Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., a division of Random House, Inc.<br/><br/>Source: <em>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens</em><br/><br/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PoetryFoundation/PoemOfTheDayText/~4/iILxeW8x87E" height="1" width="1"/><br />
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		<title>(“Sing the song of the moment&#8230;”) by Rabindranath Tagore</title>
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Sing the song of the moment in careless carols, in the transient light of the day;
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Sing of the fleeting smiles that vanish and never look back;
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Sing of the flowers that bloom and fade without regret.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Weave not in memory’s thread the days that would glide into nights.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>To the guests that must go bid God-speed, and wipe away all traces of their steps.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Let the moments end in moments with their cargo of fugitive songs.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>With both hands snap the fetters you made with your own heart chords;
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Take to your breast with a smile what is easy and simple and near.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Today is the festival of phantoms that know not when they die.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Let your laughter flush in meaningless mirth like twinkles of light on the ripples;
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Let your life lightly dance on the verge of Time like a dew on the tip of a leaf.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Strike in the chords of your harp the fitful murmurs of moments.</div>
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		<title>&#8220;Go, lovely Rose&#8221; by Edmund Waller</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Go, lovely Rose—
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tell her that wastes her time and me,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That now she knows,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>When I resemble her to thee,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Tell her that’s young,
</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And shuns to have her graces spied,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That hadst thou sprung
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>In deserts where no men abide,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Thou must have uncommended died.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Small is the worth
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Of beauty from the light retired:
</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bid her come forth,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Suffer herself to be desired,
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And not blush so to be admired.
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then die—that she
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>The common fate of all things rare
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<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;May read in thee;
</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>How small a part of time they share
</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>That are so wondrous sweet and fair!</div>
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		<title>Buddhist New Year Song by Diane di Prima</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw you in green velvet, wide full sleeves seated in front of a fireplace, our house made somehow more gracious, and you said &#8220;There are stars in your hair&#8221;&#8212; it was truth I brought down with me to this &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenmcgookey.com/buddhist-new-year-song-by-diane-di-prima/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I saw you in green velvet, wide full sleeves</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>seated in front of a fireplace, our house</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>made somehow more gracious, and you said</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&ldquo;There are stars in your hair&rdquo;&mdash; it was truth I</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>brought down with me</div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>to this sullen and dingy place that we must make golden</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>make precious and mythical somehow, it is our nature,</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>and it is truth, that we came here, I told you,</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>from other planets</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>where we were lords, we were sent here,</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>for some purpose</div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>the golden mask I had seen before, that fitted</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>so beautifully over your face, did not return</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>nor did that face of a bull you had acquired</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>amid northern peoples, nomads, the Gobi desert</div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I did not see those tents again, nor the wagons</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>infinitely slow on the infinitely windy plains,</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>so cold, every star in the sky was a different color</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>the sky itself a tangled tapestry, glowing</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>but almost, I could see the planet from which we had come</div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I could not remember (then) what our purpose was</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>but remembered the name Mahakala, in the dawn</div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>in the dawn confronted Shiva, the cold light</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>revealed the &ldquo;mindborn&rdquo; worlds, as simply that,</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I watched them propagated, flowing out,</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>or, more simply, one mirror reflecting another.</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>then broke the mirrors, you were no longer in sight</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>nor any purpose, stared at this new blackness</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>the mindborn worlds fled, and the mind turned off:</div>
<p><br/></p>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>a madness, or a beginning?</div>
<p><br/><br/>Diane di Prima, &ldquo;Buddhist New Year Song&rdquo; from <em>Pieces of a Song</em>. Copyright &copy; 1990 by Diane di Prima. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.<br/><br/>Source: <em><em>Pieces of a Song: Selected Poems</em></em> (City Lights Books, 1990)</em><br/><br/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PoetryFoundation/PoemOfTheDayText/~4/AJPTgTnVjFk" height="1" width="1"/><br />
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Poem by Margaret Avison</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle Along the window-ledge. &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; A solitary pearl Shed from the necklace spilled at last week&#8217;s party Lies in the suety, snow-luminous plainness Of morning, on the window-ledge beside them.&#160;&#160;&#160; And all the furniture &#8230; <a href="http://kathleenmcgookey.com/new-years-poem-by-margaret-avison-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>The Christmas twigs crispen and needles rattle </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Along the window-ledge. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A solitary pearl </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Shed from the necklace spilled at last week&rsquo;s party </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Lies in the suety, snow-luminous plainness </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Of morning, on the window-ledge beside them.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And all the furniture that circled stately </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And hospitable when these rooms were brimmed </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>With perfumes, furs, and black-and-silver </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Crisscross of seasonal conversation, lapses </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Into its previous largeness. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I remember&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Anne&rsquo;s rose-sweet gravity, and the stiff grave </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Where cold so little can contain; </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>I mark the queer delightful skull and crossbones </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Starlings and sparrows left, taking the crust, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And the long loop of winter wind </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Smoothing its arc from dark Arcturus down </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>To the bricked corner of the drifted courtyard, </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>And the still window-ledge. </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gentle and just pleasure </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>It is, being human, to have won from space </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>This unchill, habitable interior </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Which mirrors quietly the light </div>
<div style='text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;'>Of the snow, and the new year.</div>
<p><br/><br/>&#8220;New Year&rsquo;s Poem&#8221; by Margaret Avison. Reprinted from <em>Always Now: The Collected Poems </em>(in three volumes) by Margaret Avison by permission of the Porcupine&rsquo;s Quill. &copy; The Estate of Margaret Avison, 2003.<br/><br/>Source: <em>Always Now: The Collected Poems</em> (The Porcupine&#8217;s Quill, 2003)</em><br/><br/><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/PoetryFoundation/PoemOfTheDayText/~4/R5jbRYLXFWg" height="1" width="1"/><br />
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