I love horses! Never forget legendary horse lover Mr Hands who died doing what he loved- horses!

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If I Must Die
Refaat Alareer
 
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)

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My First Memory (of Librarians)
Nikki Giovanni

This is my first memory:
🧵

Two fresh raspberries are held in a hand with a black sweater visible on the wrist.

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Relax
Ellen Bass

Bad things are going to happen.
Your tomatoes will grow a fungus
and your cat will get run over.
🧵

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What the Living Do
Marie Howe

Johnny, the kitchen sink has been clogged for days, some utensil probably fell down there.
And the Drano won't work but smells dangerous, and the crusty dishes have piled up

A bird stands on a table with a person in silhouette behind it, illuminated by warm morning sunlight.

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The Summers Day
Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?

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Cups
Gwen Harwood

They know us by our lips. They know the proverb
about the space between us. Many slip.
They are older than their flashy friends, the glasses.
They held water first, are named in scripture.

A mother pig lies on straw with a group of piglets sleeping around her.

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Saint Francis and the Sow
Galway Kinnell

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

and you'll bargain with the calendar
and at the last moment
when death opens the back door
you'll put on your carpet slippers
and stride out.

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6/6

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Sono’s Zen Death Poem
(as pinned to her clothing and learned by heart by Frank Ostaseski)

She said,
Don’t just stand there with your hair turning grey

Man stands with a camera to his eye, looking out to sea. He is in silhouette against rolling surf. The sun has set. The sea is darkening.

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Beannacht
John O’Donohue

On the day when
The weight deadens
On your shoulders
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.

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The Meaning of Existence
Les Murray

Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.

1/2

Afterglow pulsing,
Sweating skin a new language
That only we speak.

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