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I turn, seeking the hawk
to bring my message to you,
to receive yours to me,
and wonder if he shall
bend his wings toward me,
ever or now, to dip into
my heart and take from it
that note, most unmixed,
to swirl its eternal wings
to the expanding night,
to all of the world, to you
at last, for you to know.
Exquisite and with just a hint of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “The Windhover..”
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Thank you, that is very kind of you. Need to return to Hopkins. Have not read him for a very long time. Thanks for the reminder.
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“A very long time” –Then let’s compare notes! I studied Hopkins in a Master’s course in Modern British Poetry in 1970. Do I win?! *g*
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I think you do. I hope you take that as a good thing —
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Oh, yes! Living a good life, with a loving wife, and a good dog is ALWAYS a good thing! (74 years of age this July) *easy smile*
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Indeed. I hope to be there some day!! Congratulations on having made one good decision after another (not that it’s all under our control, but we need to decide well when we have the chance). All the best —
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Thank you. I don’t want to leave the impression that my “good life” has been free of heartbreak (divorce from an UNloving wife after 42 years, heart attack and sextuple bypass, diabetes Type II and the beat goes on! Every day I wake up is a good day. I’m so thankful I found this place and wonderful friends with whom to celebrate this glorious life.
Warmest,
Ron
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Me, too. (And I did not know a sextuple bypass was even a thing!) Peace —
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Oh, yes. It’s very much a real thing! Surgery performed in 1999 and not a moment’s trouble since. Has never been necessary to take nitroglycerine pills, I eat everything I want, no curtailed physical activities, active as I want to be (!) and on and on. LIFE IS GOOD!
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Great to hear!!
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First, I am immediately drawn by the hawk. I also love how each stanza is a different facet, and how “note” gives layers of meaning, and the contemplative-mystical mood.
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Thanks! You know, I wondered about that hawk. But it wasn’t until I wrote this that it occurred to me why Wallace Stevens was so into birds. As long as I got that, it was worth writing.
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