Goodbye October - Hello November 2013

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 The Lightest Touch

Good poetry begins with
the lightest touch,
a breeze arriving from nowhere,
a whispered healing arrival,
a word in your ear,
a settling into things,

then like a hand in the dark
it arrests the whole body,
steeling you for revelation.


In the silence that follows
a great line
you can feel Lazarus
deep inside
even the laziest, most deathly afraid
part of you,
lift up his hands and walk toward the light.


David Whyte 
From his website here

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From my archives a couple of posts around this time last year
  
Entering November. A Few Reflections 2012 

The Swan

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