Thursday, October 6, 2011

I Wake to Sleep and Take My Waking Slow





Got an email yesterday from typepad telling me they tried to renew my year subscription for their service but the credit card I had been using had expired, give them the new numbers or my right to post will be suspended in a week - they won't delete content, though my ability to add new content is contingent on my renewing.

Meaning it's been almost a year since I migrated here from there. Jesusfuck, look at that gahfulness. Much better here, yes? for the updating blogrolls alone - lordy, not needing to ping you to see if you'd posted must have cost some of you five pings a day. That's it for the bleggalgazing: I enjoy blogging, I've come to peace on why I blog, the good reasons, the selfish reasons, the bozo reasons, come to peace with the how and embraced the what the fuck: you read or you don't, it's all cool. Thanks for the Kind. If you're Kinding me and me not you, please let me know.














THE WAKING

Theodore Roethke

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.   
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!  I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?   
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do   
To you and me; so take the lively air,   
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.   
What falls away is always. And is near.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.   
I learn by going where I have to go.


5 comments:

  1. Tranströmer, more than meets the eye. Such guffawery makes me feel old, until I read your age, thanks internets.

    Why slaughter indiscriminately when there's so much stone's blood to squeeze?

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  2. Looking forward to digging deeper into Tranströmer.

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  3. Much better here, yes? for the updating blogrolls alone -

    The no bills part is nice, too.
    ~

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  4. Much better service - I can't imagine how typepad stays in business much longer - and no bill but giving my soul to the googleborg.

    No worries. There are better ways I can fret my complicity (while doing nothing about it).

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  5. Pentangle is one of my top five of all time. Thanks.

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