Poetry, Beauty, Romance, Love

Poetry, Beauty, Romance, Love

Poetry, Beauty, Romance, Love

We don’t read and write poetry
because it’s cute. We read and
write poetry because we are
members of the human race.
And the human race is filled
with passion. And medicine, law,
business, engineering, these are
noble pursuits and necessary to
sustain life. But poetry, beauty,
romance, love, these are what
we stay alive for.

~ Robin Williams as John Keating,
Dead Poets Society (1989)

The Story of a Million Years

By Barry Long

How do you write
The story of a million years?
How do you write
The story of a river of tears?
How do you write
The story of eternity?
How do you write
The mystery of you and me?

The whole world’s agroaning and travailing in agony
Aweeping and afearing as it shuffles towards its destiny.
How do you write
The story of this tragic throng?
How do you write?
How do you write?
How can you right what’s wrong?

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