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Emily Dickinson

Infrequency

February 1, 2010

in Poetry,Process,Words

#1452

Your thoughts don’t have words ever day
They come a single time
Like signal esoteric sips
Of the communion Wine
Which while you taste so native seems
So easy to be
You cannot comprehend its price
Nor its infrequency

– Emily Dickinson

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Of Wealth and Ecstasy

March 27, 2009

in Poetry,Thinking,Words

It’s no surprise that in five lines, Miss Dickinson succinctly says what I spent more than a thousand words trying to convey:

#1640

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy,
And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men –
Ill it becometh me to dwell so wealthily
When at my very Door are those possessing more,
In abject poverty –

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