New Poem

Oh to be wanted and not possessed but wanted whole and free
and ached for
to stand at moments in time
as the visible promise of
infinite union

Walt Whitman Poem

Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love



FAST-ANCHOR’D, eternal, O love! O woman I love!
O bride! O wife! more resistless than I can tell, the thought of you!
—Then separate, as disembodied, or another born,
Ethereal, the last athletic reality, my consolation;
I ascend—I float in the regions of your love, O man, 5
O sharer of my roving life.

Wordsworth Poem

ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM
BEHOLD an emblem of our human mind
Crowded with thoughts that need a settled home,
Yet, like to eddying balls of foam
Within this whirlpool, they each other chase
Round and round, and neither find
An outlet nor a resting-place!
Stranger, if such disquietude be thine,
Fall on thy knees and sue for help divine.
1846.

Yeats quote

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed opon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction while the worst
are full of passionate intensity.

excerpt from 'The Second Coming', W.B.Yeats, Collected Poems (Great Britain: Picador, 1990), p. 210-11