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“The End” by Mark Strand
“Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end, Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like When he’s held by the sea’s roar, motionless, there at the end, Or what he … Continue reading
Foggy Breath of Life
“THE BREATHING” by Denise Levertov An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have looked for apples. The woods from brook to where the top … Continue reading
“Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines” by Dylan Thomas
“Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides; And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads, The things of light File through the flesh where no flesh decks the … Continue reading
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Tagged alchemy, archetypes, blood, body, darkness, death, Dylan Thomas, life, light, Light breaks where no sun shines, poetry, rebirth, symbolism, symbols
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“Evening” by Reiner Maria Rilke in Two Translations
I. EVENING Slowly now the evening changes his garments held for him by a rim of ancient trees; you gaze: and the landscape divides and leaves you, one sinking and one rising toward the sky. And you are left, to … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, C.G. Jung, Edward Snow, Evening, poetry, Red Book, Reiner Maria Rilke, Stephen Mitchell, stone, symbolism, symbols, translation
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LADY, WEEPING AT THE CROSSROADS by W.H. Auden
“Lady, weeping at the crossroads Would you meet your love In the twilight with his greyhounds, And the hawk on his glove? Bribe the birds then on the branches, Bribe them to be dumb, Stare the hot sun out … Continue reading
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Tagged archetypes, depth psychology, Lady Weeping at the Crossroads, lunar eclipse, poem, poetry, Soul, symbolism, symbols, W.H. Auden
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Shadow Before Equinox
1. “Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Quotations
Tagged archetypes, D.H. Lawrence, depth psychology, literature, Murakami, Pluto direct, poetry, Self, snake, symbols, transformation
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“The Goddess“ by Denise Levertov
Paul Gauguin, “The Seed of the Areoi” THE GODDESS, by Denise Levertov “She in whose lip service I passed my time, whose name I knew, but not her face, came upon me where I lay in Lie Castle! Flung … Continue reading
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Tagged Denise Levertov, goddess, lies, poem, poetry, the goddess, truth
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The White Birds
THE WHITE BIRDS by W.B. Yeats I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea! We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fade and flee; And the flame of the … Continue reading
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The Flowers
Goddess Flora “The Flowers” by Stéphane Mallarmé (translated by Henry Weinfield) “From golden showers of the ancient skies, On the first day, and the eternal snow of stars, You once unfastened giant calyxes For the young earth still innocent … Continue reading
White Magic
“Standing before the mirror of silence with her hands in her hair, Barbara pours into her glass body silver droplets of her voice. And then like a jar she fills with light and glasslike filters stars through herself and the … Continue reading
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