FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1981 I have a small grain of hope — one small crystal that gleams clear colors out of transparency. I need more. I break off a fra… - Denise Levertov
" "FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1981
I have a small grain of hope — one small crystal that gleams clear
colors out of transparency.
I need more.
I break off a fragment to send you.
Please take this grain of a grain of hope so that mine won’t shrink.
Please share your fragment so that yours will grow.
Only so, by division, will hope increase, like a clump of irises, which will cease to flower unless you distribute the clustered roots, unlikely source — clumsy and earth-covered — of grace.
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About Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-American poet.
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Birth Name:
Priscilla Denise Levertoff
Alternative Names:
Priscilla D Levertoff
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Priscilla Denise Levertov
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Some people, no matter what you give them, still want the moon.
The bread, the salt, white meat and dark meat, still hungry.
The marriage bed and the cradle, still empty arms.
You give them land, their own earth under their feet, still they take to the roads.
And water: dig them the deepest, still it’s not deep enough to drink the moon from.
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The roses tremble; oh, the sunflower's eye
Is opened wide in sad expectancy.
Westward and back the circling swallows fly,
The rooks' battalions dwindle near the hill.
That low pulsation in the east is war:
No bell now breaks the evening's silent dream.
The bloodless clarity of evening's sky
Betrays no whisper of the battle-scream.
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