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TWO POEMS by Leonard Gontarek featured on Life As Activism
Walt Whitman With Light On A Lake The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. The land and the sea, the animals fishes and birds, the sky of heaven and the orbs, the forests mountains and rivers, are not small themes … but folks expect of the poet to indicate more than the beauty and dignity which always attach to dumb real objects … they expect the poet to indicate the path between reality and their souls. Men and women perceive the beauty well enough … probably as well as the poet. You shall ratchet up the moon.
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