"You'll Live, But I'll Not..."

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You'll live, but I'll not; perhaps,

The final turn is that.

Oh, how strongly grabs us

The secret plot of fate.

They differently shot us:

Each creature has its lot,

Each has its order, robust, --

A wolf is always shot.

In freedom, wolves are grown,

But deal with them is short:

In grass, in ice, in snow, --

A wolf is always shot.

Don't cry, oh, friend my dear,

If, in the hot or cold,

From tracks of wolves, you'll hear

My desperate recall.

~ Anna Akhmatova

(Translated by Yevgeny Bonver)

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Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~ Robert Brault

"You'll Live, But I'll Not..."

Photo credit: psbjj from morguefile.com

You'll live, but I'll not; perhaps,

The final turn is that.

Oh, how strongly grabs us

The secret plot of fate.

They differently shot us:

Each creature has its lot,

Each has its order, robust, --

A wolf is always shot.

In freedom, wolves are grown,

But deal with them is short:

In grass, in ice, in snow, --

A wolf is always shot.

Don't cry, oh, friend my dear,

If, in the hot or cold,

From tracks of wolves, you'll hear

My desperate recall.

~ Anna Akhmatova

(Translated by Yevgeny Bonver)

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Fate, Chance, God's Will - we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate. ~ Robert Brault

Living With Animals

"silence is so accurate"

—Mark Rothko

Every evening

you sit close,

bodies pressed

against each other.

Every night

your sleeping spines

spiral like

the Milky Way

beside each other.

You leave no spaces.

You leave no room

for misunderstanding.

How easy it is

to live in peace

with animals.

How accurately

love can be conveyed

in silence.

~ Kirsten Dierking, from Northern Oracle

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The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~ Robert Brault

Living With Animals

"silence is so accurate"

—Mark Rothko

Every evening

you sit close,

bodies pressed

against each other.

Every night

your sleeping spines

spiral like

the Milky Way

beside each other.

You leave no spaces.

You leave no room

for misunderstanding.

How easy it is

to live in peace

with animals.

How accurately

love can be conveyed

in silence.

~ Kirsten Dierking, from Northern Oracle

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The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~ Robert Brault

Myself

What, younger, felt

was possible, now knows

is not - but still

not chanted enough -

Walked by the sea,

unchanged in memory -

evening, as clouds

on the far-off rim

of water float,

pictures of time,

smoke, faintness -

still the dream.

I want, if older,

still to know

why, human, men

and women are

so torn, so lost,

why hopes cannot

find better world

than this.

Shelley is dead and gone,

who said,

"Taught them not this -

to know themselves;

their might could not repress

the mutiny within,

And for the morn

of truth they feigned,

deep night

Caught them ere evening . . ."

~ Robert Creeley

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Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. ~ Robert Brault

Myself

What, younger, felt

was possible, now knows

is not - but still

not chanted enough -

Walked by the sea,

unchanged in memory -

evening, as clouds

on the far-off rim

of water float,

pictures of time,

smoke, faintness -

still the dream.

I want, if older,

still to know

why, human, men

and women are

so torn, so lost,

why hopes cannot

find better world

than this.

Shelley is dead and gone,

who said,

"Taught them not this -

to know themselves;

their might could not repress

the mutiny within,

And for the morn

of truth they feigned,

deep night

Caught them ere evening . . ."

~ Robert Creeley

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Looking back, you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life, and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. ~ Robert Brault