This Graceless State

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    This Graceless State

    Though proud to count myself a working man,
    By this graceless state I will not be defined.
    Though thoughts transcend the commonplace
    I would not make a sham palace of the mind

    No flighted discourse ever fed the starving child
    No plough brought comfort to the weary heart
    No poem ever built shelter for the homeless man
    Nor can happiness be found tethered to the cart

    Vast riches cannot replace the time exchanged
    Intellect and reason cannot your death forestall
    Seek not to separate your body from your soul
    It is not division but love that makes us all

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    Doninha commented on This Graceless State

    10-18-2009

    I am simply in awe of your power of expression. You possess all of the magical gifts of an enlightened poet! Have you published a book of your poetry, yet? I want to buy one!
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    icu2 commented on This Graceless State

    10-18-2009

    Good poetic prose. And so very true. I love it! "Nor can happiness be found tethered to a cart." Like that.
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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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