Inaction

I haven’t written in a while; my life is busy. Poetry analysis to come!

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Life sucks and then you die…Or is there a better outlook?

SONGS OF INNOCENCE by William Blake
PIPING down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of peasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he, laughing, said to me:  
 ‘Pipe a song about a lamb!’
So I piped with merry cheer.
 ‘Piper, pipe that song again;’
So I piped: he wept to hear.  
‘Drop thy pipe, thy happy [...]

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Tu Fu Poetry

Bird over Cruz del Condor in Peru

Gazing at the Sacred Peak
For all this, what is the mountain god like?
An unending green of lands north and south:
From ethereal beauty Creation distills
There, yin and yang split dusk and dawn.Swelling clouds sweep by. Returning birds
Ruin my eyes vanishing. One day soon,
At the summit, the other mountains will be
Small enough [...]

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Marianne Moore- The Grave

            The Grave                            

Man looking into the sea,
taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to it yourself,  it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing,
but you cannot stand in the middle of this;
the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave. 
The [...]

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Works of Wordsworth

LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798        
      FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length
      Of five long winters! and again I hear
      These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
      With a soft inland murmur.–Once again
      Do I behold these [...]

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