viral poetry

[owlmoose]

Reconciliation
Walt Whitman

Word over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world:
... For my enemy is dead--a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin--I draw near;
I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.




Via friede. (If you haven't read the poem she posted for this meme, you should.)

Comments

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

Lovely choice, splendid imagery and a message much needed just now.

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[kunstarniki.livejournal.com]

This is a letter I think you will appreciate. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/anti_bush/660238.html?style=mine#cutid1)