Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself —
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.
End of the poem
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- Benediction by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Плакат о жилищно-строительном займе
- Indian Summer by William Ellery Leonard
- Frankincense and Myrrh poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Как бумажный пароходик
- Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
- Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
- Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) by William Matthews
- Human Charms
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Song In March by William Gilmore Simms
- Death Of Captain Cooke, by William Lisle Bowles
- The Queen’s Complaint by Sylvia Plath
- A Grace after Meat by Robert Burns
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