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Reconcilliation by Walt Whitman for nelson46
by waltz and capsize
10/09/2008, 8:34 AM #

Word over all, beautiful as the sky!
Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;
That the hands of the sisters Death and Night, incessantly softly
wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world:
... For my enemy is dead--a man divine as myself is dead;
I look where he lies, white-faced and still, in the coffin--I draw near;
I bend down, and touch lightly with my lips the white face in the coffin.

Walt Whitman

nelson, the first time i read this, it travelled inward so deep, so fast. when i read this first time, the white face was my own. it was the face of me contentious, spiteful, despairing.

people can change.

may your better self find a comfortable chair at poemsfray.

waltz

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Re: Reconcilliation by Walt Whitman for nelson46
by nelson46
10/10/2008, 10:11 AM #

That's why I think of myself as a regular. If you have listened to the band Replacements, there's a song about being a regular. I'm not a drinker, and the song is about one, but it's the tone. You've noted the tone is of increasing value waltz and capsize.

I became aware of this quite some time ago, but it was after I saw that "white face". So you read me and I you.

btw, my daughter brought me a very comfortable chair last week, what a coincidence you choose those words?

Best regards,

Rick Nelson

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