A Poem For Today - The Secret

[KEN DICKINSON]



The secret

Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry.

I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me

(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was
not even

what line it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,

the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,

and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that

a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may
discover it again, in other
lines

in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for

assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all

Denise Levertov

[K. Lauren de Boer]

Thank you for this - Ken and Denise

K. Lauren de Boer
Youtube handle: @terravitamedia
Website: terravitabooks.net

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[Patricia Rios]

Very loving, right_

[John Jai Conley]

What a magnificent tribute to all the different secrets we all can find in the same poem, and what an embodiment of that magic.

Ken, Denise, we are in your debt.

Jai

The way you look at things is the most powerful force in shaping your life.

John O’Donohue