The Lover Speaks of Natural History - Kevin Ducey

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The Lover Speaks of Natural History
                                          - Kevin Ducey

When all America has passed
when all the gas stations
have turned to delis
they will speak of my love for you.
And your reality has slowed and I
used to think of death as something
one practiced and the Buddha had
the simple trick of it, but your hand
is in mine, and I kiss your mouth
and it has slowed for me
as well and there is no dying
here in this place inside of a time when
the President is finally dead
and the glaciers are all tenderness.

--from Rhinoceros (selected by Yusef Komunyakaa)

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Profession of Faith

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From The Eyes, a 'spiritual portrait' of poems by Spanish poet Antonio Machado.

Profession of Faith
Don Paterson

God is not the sea, but of its nature:
He scatters like the moonlight on the water
or appears on the horizon like a sail.
The sea is where He wakes, or sinks to dreams.
He made the sea, and like the clouds and storms
is born of it, over and over. Thus the Creator
finds himself revived by his own creature:
he thrives on the same spirit he exhales.

I'll make you, Lord, as you made me, restore
the soul you gifted me; in time, uncover
your name in my own. Let that pure source
that pours its empty heart out to us pour
through my heart too; and let the turbid river
of every heartless faith dry up forever.

Request

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Hi, I'd like to ask for poems which have the mention of tracks in them. Train tracks, animal tracks, tear tracks- anything is fine.

edit: I'm also looking for poems for misfits, for people who feel that they don't belong.

I'm sorry for not posting a poem because this is actually the prompt for an essay that I have to hand up soon, but I have no inspiration at all :( Thank you so much in advance for any help, and I promise I'll contribute to the community as soon as I can find something that's not on here already.