A Poem For Today - The Eternal Return

[KEN DICKINSON]

The Eternal Return

Because it is not here it is eternal
the stars we consider have long been gone
I cannot recall what I was saying
while clouds melted over the morning sea
here is the same child without a childhood
the whole sentence present in the last word
and the morning of what I do not know
brings back everything that I remember
even what is gone and I know it is gone
and know I will never look on it again
appears to me once more almost complete
in its own time and then gone again
it was watching over me while I slept

- W. S. Merwin

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[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

Superb!

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[Kurt Heyl]

Very ,very wonderful Ken and W.S.

Thanks to you both

Kurt

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[Kathy]

Beautiful poem!

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