Last Updated on June 14, 2023 by Chris Roberts
References “Poetry of Presence. An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems. 2017. Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson”
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The difficulty of being alive is that it costs us our full lives. And most of us, including me, try to cheat life by not giving our full selves it. This is a poem that reminds us of that reality.
a song with no end
By: Charles Bukowski
when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”
I know what he
meant
I know what he
wanted:
to be completely alive in every moment
in spite of the inevitable.
we can’t cheat death but we can make it
work so hard
that when it does take
us
it will have known a victory just as
perfect as
ours.(p.62)
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