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Tag Archives: Life
SONNETS OF ETERNAL HOPE – III
Oh please let the love I hold for you last And survive all those times I live in fast; In starvation’s hope for a fresh new way Let me hold on, linger and with you stay.
THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXVI
If I do interrogate when I am astonishedNo new fresh flowers are born in the meadowsNor does it change anything in the sun so that it becomes more beautiful…(Even if fresh flowers were born in the meadowAnd the sun changed … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Beauty, Life, Nature, Seeing
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THE THIRST FOR INDEPENDENCE
What can sharpen this thirst for our freedom? What can help shake our love to be beaten? When will mother earth break our shackles free? When, in her love, will we and things be? Wasn’t there once another spirit in … Continue reading
Posted in C. Subramania Bharati, David Scanlon (Translations), Poetry, Translation
Tagged Freedom, Happiness, Life, Love, Resilience, Truth, Wisdom
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TAO TE CHING – VI
The earth spirit will never die As she bears the mysteries of love. Love being the only gateway to truth, That timeless truth of beings and things. Those who see fleetingly feel her joy Yet never extinguish the eternal flame.
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Laozi, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Joy, Life, Love, Poetry, Truth, Wisdom
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