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One single line of poetry....

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Clawdy · 26/06/2015 15:26

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.

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BeUpStanding · 11/04/2018 13:29

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Sylvia Platt, about her baby

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helacells · 13/04/2018 05:13

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think

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CowesTwo · 20/04/2018 13:35

Oh mother my mouth is full of stars

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eloisesparkle · 20/04/2018 18:52

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

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IHeartKingThistle · 20/04/2018 22:00

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

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MyRelationshipIsWeird · 20/04/2018 22:50

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.

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DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 21/04/2018 23:38

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.

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MissusGeneHunt · 24/04/2018 23:19

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.

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ilovemykittyy · 26/04/2018 17:48

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

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