Hi Gary,
This is really, really good! I love the way it picks up details, the way it
says things that may have darker sides to them, the way it ends!
I've been trying to write something like this myself for years but never got
anything to sound this good - I'm jealous!
(Me, I love the brazenness of the dandelions phrase!!!!)
And I'm glad I've read this,
Bob
>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Revised: Blessings Given, after Dario
>Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:11:18 -0800
>
>4tete #113 Blessings Given, after Dario
>
>Blessed is the tree, for it can scarcely feel,
>and more blessed still is the hard stone, for it no longer feels at all.
> --Ruben Dario, Fate
>
>Blessed are twigs for they know their place
>on the ground or above.
>Blessed are leaves,
>grasses, moss, wet kelp or dry,
>the forest and the trees.
>Blessed are dandelions for they speak their mind.
>
>Blessed are pebbles for they remind us
>of where we walk and how.
>Blessed are rocks,
>great stones, fractured boulders and plain,
>the finest grains of sand.
>Blessed are the rapids for they carry the day.
>
>Blessed are bushtits, nuthatches, juncos,
>eager in their frenzied flocks,
>Blessed is the flicker and the pigeon,
>ring neck's call,
>wild goose on the wind's broken wing.
>Blessed are the fox, badger and grizzly dormant in their den.
>
>Blessed are lampposts, park benches, stop signs
>and lights that green command we go,
>Blessed is the toll booth on the interchange,
>jersey barrier,
>bridge truss, bolt and rusted bracket.
>Blessed are foundations, roofs and the empty boxes in between.
>
>Blessed are the gardeners, waitresses and clerks,
>invisible as much as seen,
>traffic cop and garbage man,
>Blessed is the bag lady who helps us cross the street,
>strippers, soldiers, and wobbly sailors.
>Blessed is the stray dog that finishes the pickle in our lunch.
>
>Blessed is the peace, thin as last year's web,
>limestone, shale and shells beneath our blooded feet.
>Blessed is tomorrow's tomorrow whenever it comes.
>
>Gary 1/2003
>
>Jan Jenifer Lawrence at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html ---
>Writer's Hood at http://www.writershood.com/... Poets for Peace.... ˇPoemas
>sí, balas no!
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