It’s day 20 of Jane Dougherty’s A Month with Yeats poetry challenge and today’s quote is: ‘Out of the dark air over her head there came a murmur of soft words and meeting lips’
Jane’s blog is: https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/a-month-with-yeats-day-twenty/
My poem today is called: LISTEN
We cannot truly change that which
we are, we cannot really laugh louder,
be brighter, stay longer than our journey
has already jotted down in a journal
whose language is not our own.
We cannot truly change the air,
the ocean, the fire that forges its way
through us, leaving us inspired
or expired, hot or just overheated.
We cannot truly change much
but we can cast corrections
into the darkness caught in corners,
we can see sages that hover over heads
if we need to add meat to the monotony,
singing songs of stories never too old
to be retold, never too new to be anything
more than necessary.
We cannot truly change that which
we are, we cannot promise to hold
any longer than time allows us,
we are tied to the tension of the knot
that knows more than we do,
whose heart lays on a hinge
that hangs both the hope
and the hammer. We cannot truly
change much but we can learn to listen
to lips that have lingered, that have
laughed in the face of lies
and been nourished by the face
of the fortunate who found favor
with who they were and then substance
in the soft stream of steady words…
All words and photographs by Damien B. Donnelly
‘we can learn to listen to the lips that have lingered’ such lovely alliteration.
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Poetry, photography and message – I always like what I find here but today’s post speaks with such clarity that I feel especially encouraged to just be. Awesome, Dami! Thank you! 💕
I am comforted that you are so encouraged and send extra hugs into the mix just for you my dearest Steffi 🤗🤗
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Lovely message, Damien! Yes, we can always listen to those lips that have lingered.
Like we said the other day- it’s time to listen!!! 🤞🤗
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“We cannot truly change much
but we can cast corrections
into the darkness caught in corners,”
Sometimes I truly think that is all I can do. Beautifully put.
🤗 I am so glad to hear that
I love the idea of casting connections. And such beautiful light! (K)