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Photo by
Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives
A Thought for Today
Love is still the easy way through life.
FROM the¨BOOKS
NIGHT MISCHIEF
A young man
standing in the rain
outside that so familiar
window
known to me
because I've lived
across the street from it
too many years, too long.
Known to me
because it is unlike
any other window,
and what stays or sits
or struts behind / beyond it
is familiar if not known to me.
My domain
is not my own
not because it isn't shared
although it isn't
but because it isn't shared
by her.
I should have moved
the day I saw her
gliding up the stairs alone
or later every time I saw
someone coming, going
beneath her balcony,
down those stairs,
or moving round the corner
on the sidewalk or the street
overtipping taxi drivers
as they found the right house
and dropped their passengers
four feet from the door.
Good woman
you do me damage.
Angels could not force
such sense of loss upon me
whatever their conspiracy.
Just now
the door is answered
and the young man
steps inside.
Outside
the rain still falls
and not uncomfortably.
Long ago
I should have moved away
or else I should have
walked across the street
myself
smiled and told her
how she was an interruption
in my life
because she lived there
just the other side of it.
Without the chance
for real rejection
she rejected me.
Without a no
she let me know.
- from "Looking For A Friend", 1980
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16 October
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17 October
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Whatever you do, do with deliberation - but always keep an eye out for the consequences.
Don't consider life an avalanche. Take it as it comes, unless you're skiing.
The centerpiece of character is service to others.
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THE MORNING OF MY LIFE
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The planting
of my new life
now begins.
Not starting over,
for this month
I'll be little more
than one year old
having had my birth
the night I fell down
in your arms last year
only to rise up
and fall back down again.
And so it is
the morning of my life.
Here I am,
naked, like a child man
open to you always.
In some other life
I started building
all I've built for you,
never knowing you
never knowing
it would be you.
The planting of my new life
now begins
and you will be the farmer
tending me till harvest.
- from "Calendar Poems, " 1968, 1988 |
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