The potflower on the windowsill says to me In words that a… - Muriel Rukeyser

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The potflower on the windowsill says to me

In words that are green-edged red leaves :

Flower flower flower flower
Today for the sake of all the dead

Burst into flower

Muriel Rukeyser

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Muriel Rukeyser (15 December 1913 – 12 February 1980) was an American poet and political activist, most famous for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism.

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We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry. They are everyday, these sources, as the sources of peace are everyday, infinite and commonplace as a look, as each new sun.

These are roads to take when you think of your country and interested bring down the maps again, phoning the statistician, asking the dear friend, reading the papers with morning inquiry.

When I am dead, even then,
I will still love you, I will wait in these poems,
When I am dead, even then
I am still listening to you.

The potflower on the windowsill says to me In words that are green-edged red leaves : Flower flower flower flower Today for the sake of all the dea… - Muriel Rukeyser

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