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greatpoetryIt's been a couple weeks since I had much time to read or post here, and I've missed it terribly. Here's a bit from a favorite of mine.
from The Walls Do Not Fall
H.D.
[10]
But we fight for life,
we fight, they say, for breath,
so what good are your scribblings?
this---we take them with us
beyond death; Mercury, Hermes, Thoth
invented the script, letters, palette;
the indicated flute or lyre-notes
on papyrus or parchment
are magic, indelibly stamped
on the atmosphere somewhere,
forever; remember, O Sword,
you are the younger brother, the latter-born,
your Triumph, however exultant,
must one day be over,
in the beginning
was the Word.
from The Walls Do Not Fall
H.D.
[10]
But we fight for life,
we fight, they say, for breath,
so what good are your scribblings?
this---we take them with us
beyond death; Mercury, Hermes, Thoth
invented the script, letters, palette;
the indicated flute or lyre-notes
on papyrus or parchment
are magic, indelibly stamped
on the atmosphere somewhere,
forever; remember, O Sword,
you are the younger brother, the latter-born,
your Triumph, however exultant,
must one day be over,
in the beginning
was the Word.
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