Over the gulfs of dream Flew a tremendous bird Further and … - Theodore Roethke

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Over the gulfs of dream
Flew a tremendous bird
Further and further away
Into a moonless black,
Deep in the brain, far back.

Theodore Roethke

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Theodore Huebner Roethke (IPA: ['ɹ ɛ t.ki]; RET-key) (25 May 1908 – 1 August 1963) was an American poet who published several volumes of poetry characterized by their rhythm and natural imagery. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking.

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Wish For A Young Wife

My lizard, my lively writher
May your limbs never wither
May the eyes in your face
Survive the green ice
Of envy's mean gaze;

May you live out your life
Without hate, without grief,
And your hair ever blaze,
In the sun, in the sun,
When I am undone,
When I am no one.

Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

I learn by going where I have to go.

Over the gulfs of dream Flew a tremendous bird Further and further away Into a moonless black, Deep in the brain, far back. - Theodore Roethke

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