I love this poem- the way Stafford insists that we stop, the we - TopicsExpress



          

I love this poem- the way Stafford insists that we stop, the we become mindful in a way that is messy and human. My poems-I-love-by-heart contribution for this Friday. ~Oriah You Reading This: Stop - William Stafford Dont just stay tangled up in your life. Out there in some river or cave where you could have been, some absolute, lonely dawn may arrive and begin the story that means what everything is about. So dont just look, either: let your whole self drift like a breath and learn its way down through the trees. Let that fine waterfall-smoke filter its gone, magnified presence all through the forest. Stand here till all that you were can wander away and come back slowly, carrying a strange new flavour into your life. Feel it? Thats what we mean. So dont just read this—rub your thought over it. Now you can go on.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 13:00:01 +0000

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