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The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.
- #WilliamStafford
“The Way It Is” There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die: and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. WILLIAM STAFFORD
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"For it is important that awake people be awake,
or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep;
the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe —
should be clear: the darkness around us is deep."
- #WilliamStafford 1914-1993
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ANY MORNING
By #WilliamStafford
Just lying on the couch and being happy.
Only humming a little, the quiet sound in the head.
Trouble is busy elsewhere at the moment, it has
so much to do in the world.
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FOR MY YOUNG FRIENDS WHO ARE AFRAID
By #WilliamStafford
There is a country to cross you will
find in the corner of your eye, in
the quick slip of your foot--air far
down, a snap that might have caught.
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken;
my scars are my shield; and I jump, daylight or dark,
into any country, where as I descend I turn
native and stumble into terribly human speech
and wince recognition.
- #WilliamStafford, from his poem 'Any Time'
ANY TIME
By #WilliamStafford
Vacation? Well, our children took our love apart:
"Why do you hold Daddy's hand?" "Susy's mother
doesn't have gray in her hair." And scenes crushed
our wonder– Sun Valley, Sawtooths, those reaches
of the Inland Passage, while the children took our
simple love apart.
WHY I AM HAPPY
By #WilliamStafford
Now has come, an easy time. I let it
roll. There is a lake somewhere
so blue and far nobody owns it.
A wind comes by and a willow listens
gracefully.
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET LOST
By #WilliamStafford
Out in the mountains nobody gives you anything.
And you learn what the rules were after the game is over.
By then it is already night & it doesn’t make any difference
What anyone else is thinking or doing because now you have to
Turn into an Indian
“You don’t ever let go of the thread.” —William Stafford #humanity #earthlings #poetry #williamstafford
THE WAY IT IS By William Stafford There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread.
Your #existential PSA for the day, courtesy of #WilliamStafford:
Dawn
YES
BY #WilliamStafford
It could happen any time, tornado,
earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen.
Or sunshine, love, salvation.
It could, you know. That’s why we wake
and look out – no guarantees
in this life.
But some bonuses, like morning,
like right now, like noon,
like evening.
This morning’s moon rise with morning star above and the coming dawn below
And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing
voice that finds its way by being
afraid. That country is there, for us,
carried as it crossed. What you fear
will not go away: it will take you into
yourself and bless you and keep you.
That's the world, and we all live there.
- #WilliamStafford
This morning’s moon rise with morning star above
FOR MY YOUNG FRIENDS WHO ARE AFRAID
By #WilliamStafford
There is a country to cross you will
find in the corner of your eye, in
the quick slip of your foot---air far
down, a snap that might have caught.
CUTTING LOOSE
By #WilliamStafford
Sometimes from sorrow, for no reason,
you sing. For no reason, you accept
the way of being lost, cutting loose
from all else and electing a world
where you go where you want to.
"The Way It Is", William Stafford
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