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What's your favorite poem? Why?
Posted on Apr 20th, 2007
by 
Jenna
Jenna
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 17, 2007:
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I have to think on this one.. there is an obscure one that was in the New Yorker a few years back that was amazing.. I will have to find it.
I FOUND IT...
I have to think on this one.. there is an obscure one that was in the New Yorker a few years back that was amazing.. I will have to find it.
I FOUND IT...
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FOUND IT!!
Love After Love - Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
I love it! I feel it! Thank you sooo much for sharing this!
Oh! Jenna, what a stunning poem.
It speaks to me so directly, makes me smile and I feel held by myself.
Thank you.