ta for that
didnt know it or had forgotten
prefer whitman!
L
On 29 January 2015 at 16:52, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2015, at 2:54, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Bill
> > Do you know Whitman's "I think I could turn and live with animals"?
> >
> > I was quite pleased with danked. It's my own invention
> >
> > L
> also in the Whitman line:
> The Peace of Wild Things
> BY WENDELL BERRY
> When despair for the world grows in me
> and I wake in the night at the least sound
> in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
> I go and lie down where the wood drake
> rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
> I come into the peace of wild things
> who do not tax their lives with forethought
> of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
> And I feel above me the day-blind stars
> waiting with their light. For a time
> I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
>
> [Lucky old Berry! -
> and does it lying down.
>
> M in Seattle]
> > On 29 January 2015 at 08:32, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> 'danked' as in unpleasantly moistened, I take it, L. Like it. Reminds
> me,
> >> the poem I mean, of something my wife said to me this morning,
> dismissing
> >> those who would claim that suffering in humans ennobles. If their God
> >> exists, would He say that it is good for animals? Or if, she went on,
> if He
> >> is omnipotent, why so design humans? Could have come up with a better
> model.
> >>
> >> B
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 28 Jan 2015, at 11:58 pm, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I said once, to myself
> >>>
> >>> or perhaps to my lover,
> >>>
> >>> that being close to animals
> >>>
> >>> will make us more human:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> she sneered at me
> >>>
> >>> for speaking to a donkey - conversationally -
> >>>
> >>> on our way to eat,
> >>>
> >>> my hands danked by donkey tongue...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> it is two way, not magic -
> >>>
> >>> a rabbit's foot does nothing
> >>>
> >>> but lames the rabbit --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> seek out animals
> >>>
> >>> like one who lost them --
> >>>
> >>> non-speakers
> >>>
> >>
>
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