#NationalPoetryMonth Day 8: Another favorite villanelle by another favorite poet. The striking line “I hear my being dance from ear to ear“ is IMO a perfect example of the fine balancing act between heartfelt expressiveness & mawkishness. Link to full poem:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315
At tmes a poem that I fell in love with in childhood will suddenly come back to me. My favorite stanza:
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
An introspective look at the process of living, at the gain of insight, at the increase in consciousness & the acknowledgement that we flourish & fade in the same second.
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The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke | 
