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| Topic: Words Unspoken |
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| Re: Words Unspoken [message #14134 is a reply to message #14124] |
Mon, 01 July 2024 16:48 |
 Mark L
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Registered: October 2006
Location: Canada |
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I never thought in a million years I would be posting poetry but I found this and it really speaks to the nature of trials. Its very insightful as well. Its by Emily Dickenson. She used the word "blank". I don't know why. It seems like the wrong word to me but then its her poem not mine. Maybe blank was a deliberate choice or maybe she couldn't think of another word. I tend to think it was deliberate but then I don't know anything about poetry.
Pain has an element of blank
it cannot recollect
when it began or if there were
a day when it was not
It has no future but itself
its infinite realms contain
its past enlightened to perceive
new periods of pain
Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.”
G.K. Chesterton
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