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I think the short poems have
an art all of their own.

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Robert Bly has a
wonderful anthology,

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a little anthology of
short poems called,

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The Sea And The Honeycomb.

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And is a delightful book.

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I don't know if he
has Issa in it or not.

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But I know Issa was
one of his great loves.

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Issa, a Japanese poet.

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One of the tenderest
men that ever lived.

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And his soul shines forth
in almost everything

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he ever wrote.

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And he rarely wrote poems
longer than three lines.

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Like, for you flees too,
the night must be long.

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It must be lonely.

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Or, don't kill that fly.

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Look at him there, wringing
his hands, wringing his feet.

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Look at cricket
and rolling over.

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Here's a little poem
by D.H. Lawrence,

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called The White Horse.

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This is in Bly's book, I know.

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The youth walks up to the white
horse to put its halter on.

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And the horse looks
at him in silence.

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They are so silent.

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They are in another world.

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I'm sure most of you know this
little poem by William Carlos

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Williams.

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William was an amazing man.

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Had a long life, he delivered
thousands and thousands

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of babies, and thousands
and thousands of poems.

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And even ran off to New
York once in a while,

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with his female patients.

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But all during this time, he
maintained a beautiful love

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affair with his wife Flossie.

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And this is to her.

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A little poem called,
This Is Just To Say.

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Note, this is just to say,
I have eaten the plums

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which were in the icebox.

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And which you were probably
saving for breakfast.

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Forgive me, they were delicious.

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So sweet and so cold.

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