{"id":347,"date":"2009-04-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/fresh-morning-tail-end-of-winter-poem.html"},"modified":"2009-04-23T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T05:00:00","slug":"fresh-morning-tail-end-of-winter-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/fresh-morning-tail-end-of-winter-poem.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: Tail-End-of-Winter Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"sun1.jpg\"<\/span>Even though it’s allegedly spring, many of us are still being pushed around by gales and chills and storms. So this Mark Strand poem,<\/a> posted yesterday on my new friend Laura’s blog<\/a> in honor of National Poetry Month, seems very apropos:<\/p>\n

<\/span> <\/p>\n

Lines For Winter
<\/span>by Mark Strand<\/p>\n

Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself —
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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