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My son
One day you’ll learn
That love’s a kind of grief
Delayed
A journey with
The ferryman
Who must be paid
You’ll learn to hold
Love’s razor
Sharp blade
Just know
Each cut
Lets out
Your tender heart
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Love
These ’translations’ were made relying on a number of sources including AI translations and, in respect of ‘It Is Possible’, relying heavily on Robert Bly’s translation which he named ‘Pushing Through’. The author does not speak German, so interpretations might be a more accurate description.
It Is Possible
It is possible I am trying to push through solid rock lying in
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poem for a wedding
Write me a poem about being together…
One wonders when to rhyme it with weather
Or whether to say
Weathering the storms altogether
And yet like relationships
The best lines of a poem
Are not made to be a perfect fit
In poetry & life we must aim
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In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within
’ I feel as if I’m losing all my leaves. The branches, and the wind, and the rain. I don’t know what’s happening anymore.’ - Anthony (‘The Father’)
Struggling wordlessly into the light
Startling eruption of limb
As green as green has ever been
Flowing and fumblingly growing
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