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i thank you God for most this amazing

i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday;this is the birth
day of life and love and wings:and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any-lifted from the no
of all nothing-human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?

(now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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  • whispernthedark
    February 4

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    reminds me of someone born-again doesnt even have to be in a religious sense,
    but of an emotional one

  • bluerayne
    July 19, 2006
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    I read this poem at the funeral of my grandmother.

  • a-crazed-hobo
    December 16, 2004
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    Do I sense a Buddhistic feel in this, especially in the couplet?