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English

Secular or Eclectic
Buddhist
Contemporary

In the morning as the storm begins to blow away
the clear sky appears for a moment and it seems to me
that there has been something simpler than I could ever
believe
simpler than I could have begun to find words for
not patient not even waiting no more hidden
than the air itself that became part of me for a while
with every breath and remained with me unnoticed
something that was here unnamed unknown in the days
and the nights not separate from them
not separate from them as they came and were gone
it must have been here neither early nor late then
by what name can I address it now holding out my thanks

 

 

-- from The Pupil: Poems, by W. S. Merwin

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Themes

  Dawn
  Sky
 
 
 


Recommended Books


East Window: Poems from Asia, Translated by W. S. Merwin
The First Four Books of Poems, by W. S. Merwin
Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977 - 1983, by W. S. Merwin
Migration: New & Selected Poems, by W. S. Merwin
Present Company, by W. S. Merwin

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