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I can almost recall the poem, about 65% memorized,

Jul 18, 2008, 09:50AM PDT | 1 comment

Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize it’s own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your womb
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than the eye can see.

You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive

is too small for you.

Jul 09, 2008, 10:47PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments

Untitled 17 months ago

I’m trying to pick out the first poem I will attempt to memorize, so far in the running are:

Self Portrait by David Whyte

Lost by David Wagoner

The Swan by Rainer Maria Rilke

The House of Belonging by David Whyte

The Song of Wandering Aengus, by W.B. Yeats

Jul 01, 2008, 08:25PM PDT | 1 comment

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