Rec | THE POEM "A BLESSING" BY JAMES WRIGHT

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"They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other. There is no loneliness like theirs. " wow, I won't say anything about how it ends: You can read it here: A Blessing | The Poetry Foundation

@yesmor

Oct 29, 2024

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An Auto-da-fé by Kevin McFadden This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock by TS Elliot To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden There's a little bit of everything here: long or short, old to new.