Tag: poetry

takings from, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

 

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I exist as I am, that is enough

If no other in the world be aware, I sit content

And if each and all be aware I sit content.

 

Whoever degrades another degrades me…

and whatever is done or said,

returns at last to me,

And whatever I do or say I also return.

 

The pleasures of heaven are with me,

and the pains of hell are will me,

The first I graft and increase upon myself..

the latter I translate into a new tongue.

 

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,

And I say it is great to be a woman as to be a man.

And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.

 

And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths,

No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

 

words from whitman..

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.

 

You must travel it by yourself.

It is not far. It is within reach.

Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.

Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.”

 

– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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LIFE

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‘These woods are lovely,dark 

and deep,

But i have promises to keep,

And miles to go before i sleep,

And miles to go before i sleep.

ROBERT FROST

 

There simply isn’t any time to crawl up into bed and sleep life away for a while, children are a blessing like that, i guess. They keep you moving, focused and in the moment and always on them; if it were to be any other way, i quite possibly might not get out of bed on this day.