#favpoems

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little dark girl with kind eyes you have no knife. the knife is  mine and I won’t use it yet.

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Part VI: 15 Favourite Poems

The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry

2. The Song of the Happy Shepherd, by W.B. Yeats

3. Song, by Allen Ginsberg

4. A Dead Statesman, by Rudyard Kipling

5. Peonies, by Mary Oliver

6. A letter in October, by Ted Kooser

7. Prayer, by Ellen Bass

8. Church, by James Crews

9. She Tells Her Love While Half-Asleep, by Robert Graves

10. Kinder Than Man, by Althea Davis

11. Those Winter Sundays, by Robert Hayden

12. Maggie Smith Said We Could Make This Place Beautiful, by Lyndsay Rush

13. Wondrous, by Sarah Freligh

14. Departure, by Louise Gluck

15. Like a City, by Jehane Markham

See also Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V

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-no title, Charles Bukowski

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Some words will never leave God’s mouth, no matter how hard you listen.

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-Mary Oliver

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- Eavan Boland, Love

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-Sheila Packa, Driving at Night