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Tag Archives: Resilience
A LOVE FILLED LIFE
Each time we wake, fully alive to our selves, Fully present to others, there comes loves joy. For only in our truthful union, loving moments, When we step beyond our incoherent walls, Will the certainties in a love of life … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon, Poetry
Tagged Life, Love, Passion, Resilience, Truth, Work
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THE KEEPER OF FLOCKS – XXI
If I could caress in my mouth the whole world And feel-her full bodied taste, And if the earth was a thing to bite upon Would I be happier for that brief moment… But I don’t always want to be … Continue reading
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Fernando Pessoa, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Feeling, Happiness, Life, Resilience, Thinking
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I KNOW THE TRUTH
I Know The Truth! All previous truths – depart! We don’t have to with others be fight seekers. Behold: see night: soon the darkness will start. What do you say – poets, lovers, and leaders?
Posted in David Scanlon (Translations), Marina Tsvetaeva, Poetry, Translation
Tagged Life, Love, Poetry, Poets, Resilience, Truth
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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 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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