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A favorite Poem......
A favorite Poem...... Greetings Sexual and Sensual FriendFinder-x's! There's a lot of "poetry" on our site by way of amazing flesh and artistic<b> photographs </font></b>and videos and blogs of all stripes....love the freedom we have here to be ourselves. I read an artistically written profile tonight and it reminded of favorite poem that I wanted share. I was turned onto it years ago in the , " Poems Set You Free" I'm not a big poetry guy but this poem was special. It talks about all the LAYERS in our lives of past and present relationships, and how deeply we are touched by them all as they come and go. And although sometimes there's lots of "garbage" and "litter" everywhere from our years of transitions, we don't LIVE on the LITTER but between those amazing LAYERS. Peace, Vincent.... The Layers By Stanley Kunitz I have walked through many lives, some of them own, and I am not I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not stray. When I behind, as I am compelled before I can gather strength proceed on journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings. Oh, I have made myself a tribe of true affections, and tribe is scattered! How shall the heart be reconciled its feast of losses? In a rising wind the manic dust of friends, those fell along the way, bitterly stings . Yet I turn, I turn, exulting somewhat, with will intact go wherever I need go, and every stone on the road precious to . In darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: “Live in the layers, not on the litter.” Though I lack the art decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in of transformations is already written. I am not done with changes. Stanley Kunitz, "The Layers" from The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz. Copyright © 1978 by Stanley Kunitz. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. |
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