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Now Close the Windows by Robert Frost
Now close the windows and hush all the fields;
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.
It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.
It’s the birthday of Thomas Merton,
(books by this author) born in Prades, France (1915).
Quotation by Thomas Merton:
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future.
Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Welcome Morning
by Anne Sexton
“There is joy
in all:
in the hair I brush each morning,
in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
that I rub my body with each morning,
in the chapel of eggs I cook
each morning,
in the outcry from the kettle
that heats my coffee
each morning,
in the spoon and the chair
that cry ‘hello there, Anne’
each morning,
in the godhead of the table
that I set my silver, plate, cup upon
each morning.
All this is God,
right here in my pea-green house
each morning
and I mean,
though often forget,
to give thanks
to faint down by the kitchen table
in a prayer of rejoicing
as the holy birds at the kitchen window
peck into their marriage of seeds.
So while I think of it,
let me paint a thank-you on my palm
for this God, this laughter of the morning,
let it go unspoken.
The Joy that isn’t shared, I’ve heard,
dies young.”
“Dare to be honest and fear no labor.”
(Quotation by Robert Burns)
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when you have forgotten Sunday:
the love story
by Gwendolyn Brooks
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.
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