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Now the seasons are closing their files
on each of us, the heavy drawers
full of certificates rolling back
into the tree trunks, a few old papers
flocking away. Someone we loved
has fallen from our thoughts,
making a little, glittering splash
like a bicycle pushed by a breeze.
Otherwise, not much has happened;
we fell in love again, finding
that one red reather on the wind.
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There are mornings when everything brims with promise, even my empty cup.
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A poem published in one of the very best literary magazines in the country might net you a check for enough money to buy half a sack of groceries.
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When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.
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A happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand
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Somehow poets have gotten the idea that to write in the present tense is really cool, though most of our experience is in the past.
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Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.
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All night, this soft rain from The distant past. No wonder I sometimes Waken as a child.
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There's nothing wrong with delighting in what you do. In fact, most of the fun you'll have as a poet will come about during the process of writing.
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The poem is the device through which the ordinary world is seen in a new way - engaging, compelling, even beautiful.
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I like the idea of there being times when even words cost so much you used them sparingly. I have known a lot of old men and women who talked as if they were paying Western Union by the word.
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So much to live for.
Each rope rings
a different bell.
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Ted Kooser
Born:
April 25, 1939
(age 85)
Bio:
Ted Kooser is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.
Known for:
Delights & Shadows (2004)
Local wonders (2002)
Splitting an Order (2014)
Winter Morning Walks (2000)
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