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When the Spring Thaw Comes

Ivan M. Granger, Ivan M. Granger poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, Yoga / Hindu poetry by Ivan M. Granger
(1969 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Yoga / Hindu : Advaita / Non-Dualist
Contemporary

Something they
won't tell you —

That book of sins
you hide
beneath your pillow
matters
not at all.

When the spring thaw comes
we all go mad
and shred it,
tossing love notes
left and right
scribbled on the scraps.

 

2003

 

 

Themes

  Lover and Beloved
  Spring Blossom
  Water
 
 


Recommended Books


For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics, by Roger Housden
Poems of Awakening: An International Anthology of Spiritual Poetry, Edited by Betsy Small

 

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