Monday, January 13, 2003

Waiting Comments

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Today I will let the old boat stand
Where the sweep of the harbor tide comes in
To the pulse of a far, deep-steady sway.
And I will rest and dream and sit on the deck
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Carl Sandburg
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A. Madhavan 28 June 2016

A reader who likes this choice from Carl Sandburg may kindly see a poem I wrote as an under-graduate in 1952, 'A Song of Waiting'; I sent it to PH decades later, and was pleased to see it included in my web-page (21/318) . A different age, a hemisphere away, but the theme is basically the same. A. Madhavan

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Jasbir Chatterjee 28 June 2016

lovely poem, especially this line, For ours is the quest of an unknown shore. Congrats on being poet of the day!

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Edward Kofi Louis 28 June 2016

The quest of an unknown shore! ! Nice work.

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