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The Lesson of Falling Leaves - Lucille Clifton

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 the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is God I agree with the leaves

Light Hoofed - Cynthia Poten

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  What if we enter each day so silently, so seamlessly the birds don't sound alarms and dart away, our minds so well released from fits of thought we are kin to all that breathes, like grazing deer  hidden in dapples of green. O how we would walk then light hoofed and elfin eyed, even on crowded days, each trembling leaf a welcome Silky beating wings would cool our errant fevers of mind would keep us filled with awe and kind

Chant - Mark Nepo

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What we want and what we're given often serve two different Gods. How we respond to their meeting determines our path.

My Way Is In the Sand Flowing - Samuel Beckett

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 My way is in the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune The summer rain rains on my life on me my life harrying fleeing to its beginning to its end My peace is in the residing mist when I may cease from treading these long shifting thresholds and live in the space of a door that opens and shuts