One single line of poetry....

[Clawdy]

that stays with you? Not necessarily your favourite poem but sometimes just one line....for me it's " What will survive of us is love " from the Philip Larkin poem.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Sylvia Platt, about her baby

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

Oh mother my mouth is full of stars

I love the Sylvia Platt BeupStanding
'Love set you going like a fat gold watch'
What a lovely thought about your babies.

Oh let them be left, wildness and wet,
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

John Donne, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning.

With a DP who travels a lot on business I love the sentiment of this, that our love is just stretched more thinly over a larger area.

A belated tribute to Ursula Le Guin:

Only in darkness the light,
Only in silence the word,
Bright the hawk's flight in the empty sky.

From Leo Marks' cryptology poem:

'The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours....'

Just beautiful.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there I did not die.♥️