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Self Portrait (David Whyte)

2/14/2017

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It doesn't interest me if there is one God
or many gods.
I want to know if you belong or feel
abandoned.
If you know despair or can see it in others.
I want to know 
if you are prepared to live in the world
with its harsh need
to change you. If you can look back
with firm eyes
saying this is where I stand. I want to know
if you know 
how to melt into that fierce heat of living
falling toward
the center of your longing. I want to know
if you are willing
to live, day by day, with the consequence of love
and the bitter
unwanted passion of your sure defeat.

I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even
the gods speak of God. 


(Fire in the Earth, 1992, Many Rivers Press)
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Love Itself (Leonard Cohen)

2/14/2017

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The light came through the window,
Straight from the sun above,
And so inside my little room
There plunged the rays of Love.

In streams of light I clearly saw
The dust you seldom see,
Out of which the Nameless makes
A Name for one like me. 

I’ll try to say a little more:
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door --
Then Love Itself was gone. 

All busy in the sunlight
The flecks did float and dance,
And I was tumbled up with them
In formless circumstance. 

Then I came back from where I’d been
My room, it looked the same — 
But there was nothing left between
The Nameless and the Name. 

I’ll try to say a little more:
Love went on and on
Until it reached an open door — 
Then Love Itself was gone. 
​

(The Book of Longing, 2007)
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let it go (E.E. Cummings)

2/14/2017

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​
let it go - the
smashed word broken 
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise - let it go it
was sworn to
go
 
let them go - the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers - you must let them go they
were born
to go
 
let all go - the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things - let all go
dear

so comes love


(Complete Poems 1904-1962) 
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