[New-Poetry] The honey of peace

[Anny Ballardini]

great poem
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  From: Bob Grumman 
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    To The Stone-Cutters


    Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated
    Challengers of oblivion
    Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down,
    The square-limbed Roman letters
    Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well
    Builds his monument mockingly;
    For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun
    Die blind and blacken to the heart:
    Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found
    The honey of peace in old poems.

    --Robinson Jeffers


    One of my favorites for a longe time.

    --Bob G.


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