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When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited the world.
Mary Oliver "When Death Comes"
— Jun 02, 2025 06:44AM
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited the world.
Mary Oliver "When Death Comes"
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Alena
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A lively understandable spirit
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.
"The Lost Son" Roethke
— May 30, 2025 05:33AM
Once entertained you.
It will come again.
Be still.
Wait.
"The Lost Son" Roethke
Alena
is on page 128 of 352
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
W. H. Auden "Funeral Blues"
— May 25, 2025 04:56PM
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
W. H. Auden "Funeral Blues"
Alena
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Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minutes there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
— May 20, 2025 04:59AM
Disturb the universe?
In a minutes there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T. S. Eliot "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Alena
is on page 63 of 352
...
(But where is what I started for, so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?)
Walt Whitman, "Facing West from California's Shores"
— May 14, 2025 04:54AM
(But where is what I started for, so long ago?
And why is it yet unfound?)
Walt Whitman, "Facing West from California's Shores"
