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“Poems are rough notations of the music we are” — Rumi

Posted byNeilo@griefandpoetrySeptember 8, 2020Posted inUncategorizedTags:griefandpoetry, poetryandinspirationLeave a comment on “Poems are rough notations of the music we are” — Rumi

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“Poems are rough notations of the music we are” — Rumi

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More brilliance from our environmental warrior, thank you, Joanna. Joanna has also written:

Honored that my short essay, "Poetry and Silence: Toward Creating a Healing Space," was published yesterday by Elizabeth Coplan in her blog, Grief Dialogues.

Closing out the Passover holiday this weekend. This poem was read at one of our Seders. Powerful, eloquent, enough.

Love Michael Longley's idea that art (and poetry by extension) is to "tune us up." That good poems makes people more human, more pure than they might otherwise be. (This was a very recent rebroadcast of an On Being interview initially held November 2016.)

[And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.]

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