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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:

The Waking
-Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.   
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!   I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315