Sunday, April 26, 2020

Forty-One Is Filled with Precious Longing

April 27, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is psychology at 41.

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A psychological number poem about the inborn need for longing:

Forty-one is filled with precious longing,
Overcome by sea and earth and sky.
Reason sees no reason for such yearning,
Though the heart knows well the reason why.
Years like fantasies flow swiftly by.

Only in that inner, restless burning,
Need like waves receding and returning,
Eloquent and spare, is the reply.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Psychology at 41
4/27: Forty-One Is Filled with Precious Longing

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