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Poetry for Healing

Poetry for Healing

The Fruit

It climbed and climbed from earth invisibly
And kept its secret in the silent stem
And turned in the clear blossom into flame
And then resumed its secrecy

And through a whole long summer fructified
Within that day and night travailing tree
And felt itself as urging instancy
To meet responding space outside

And though it now displays so shiningly
That rondure of completed rest anew
Within the rind it sinks resigningly
Back to the centre it outgrew.

Rainer Rilke

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Dunno if thus is appropriate @Kyle1 but here's another

To Know the Dark

by Wendell Berry

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.

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Thankyou @Kyle1 just beautiful

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"For this is guilt, if anything be guilt, not to enlarge the freedom of a love with all the freedom in one's own possession. All we can offer where we love is this: to loose each other; for to hold each other comes easy to us and requires no learning."

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