If this were framed, and hung in a quiet corner where it could be read each day, it might serve as a kind of household guardian spirit. It might serve even if it were not read. After all, poems have their ways.
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Imagine Your Mind
Imagine, your mind,
wandering,
until it imagines itself home,
raindrops on a silver coach,
clattering on stones,
a sign nailed on with flowers,
proprietor of a quaint hotel,
hand pump in the yard,
bower, bell,
a final end to war,
gentle hands to smooth
the bedsheets
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Recently Banned Literature, May 18, 2014
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Categories: Recently Banned Literature
Tags: Bells, Flowers, Gentle Hands, Guardian Spirits, Home, Imagination, Love, Peace, Poems, Poetry, Rain, Stones
William Michaelian 