Best Unwraps Poems

"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry." Mary Oliver

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Poetry unravels and unwraps my soul in a way
My senses are wildly awake to absorb the sights
and mellifluous sounds of the world reigning my spirit, 
My heart opens to the sublime vermillion sky,
To the melody of sapphire waves lapping on the shore,
To the magical harmony...

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My life has been folded over
  at least a hundred times

With twilight comes exposure
  and a reckoning sublime

Each crease a thing I’d never done
  each fold a place I’d hide

Now one by one the truth unwraps
 —my secrets open wide

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May,...

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