Sharing a poem from Bethanie's class wriiten by poet DAVID WHYTE

[jill stockinger]

A poet named DAVID WHYTE wrote this.

Wanted to share it.  Jill

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David Whyte

LOAVES AND FISHES

This is not

the age of information.

This is not

the age of information.

Forget the news,

and the radio,

and the blurred screen.

This is the time of loaves

and fishes.

People are hungry,

and one good word is bread

for a thousand.

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From The House of Belonging: poems by David Whyte
(Many Rivers Press). Copyright © 1996 by David Whyte.
All rights reserved. Posted with kind permission of the poet.