Too perfect and beautiful not to share, even though I've run it before.
A Short Testament
by Anne Porter
Whatever harm I may have done
In all my life in all your wide creation
If I cannot repair it
I beg you to repair it,
And then there are all the wounded
The poor the deaf the lonely and the old
Whom I have roughly dismissed
As if I were not one of them.
(Read the rest here, at The Writer's Almanac. You really have to experience the final lines of the poem.)
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The Poetry Friday round up is at Anastasia Suen's blog, Poet! Poet!
7 comments:
Such a powerful, heartfelt cry for mercy. Very moving. Thanks for sharing!
Wow -- hadn't seen it before. Beautiful and moving.
Really special, Karen. I haven't seen this before either. Thank you!
Perfect poem. Perfect timing. Thanks.
I see you all feel the same way about this poem as I do. :)
Powerful words! Thank you for sharing, Karen.
Thanks, Bridget!
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