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A goal of this community is to create a clear text library of copy & paste-able poems.

It is to make it easier to add more poetry and poets and their publications visible to our digital world. So please format it accordingly.

title could be even if it is duplicated by your username:

TITLE OF POEM by AUTHOR OF POEM

body of post could have:

TITLE OF POEM IN ITALIC

BODY OF POEM formatted as poet wanted it or its closest facsimile

that is why i haven't taken on ee cumming yet because i want to use only markdown

List any translators please put as a first comment.

Formatting help: two blank spaces at the end of a line will force a new line;

most certainly learning the Unicode markdown labels for spacing

 

 

 

and how to use the & and ; sigils to activate them for your or someone else's poetry spacing.

if a poem's language settings make it at all difficult to mod i'm deleting it.

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Eagle Poem

To pray you open your whole self
To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon
To one whole voice that is you.
And know there is more
That you can’t see, can’t hear;
Can’t know except in moments
Steadily growing, and in languages
That aren’t always sound but other
Circles of motion.
Like eagle that Sunday morning
Over Salt River. Circled in blue sky
In wind, swept our hearts clean
With sacred wings.
We see you, see ourselves and know
That we must take the utmost care
And kindness in all things.
Breathe in, knowing we are made of
All this, and breathe, knowing
We are truly blessed because we
Were born, and die soon within a
True circle of motion,
Like eagle rounding out the morning
Inside us.
We pray that it will be done
In beauty.
In beauty.

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