Poetry Friday: All is Truth by Walt Whitman

December 3rd, 2010 (06:53 am)

Current Mood: thirsty
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Meditating among liars, and retreating sternly into myself, I see that there are really no liars or lies after all,
And nothing fails its perfect return - And that what are called lies are perfect returns,
And that each thing exactly represents itself, and what has preceded it,
And that the truth includes all, and is compact, just as much as space is compact,
And that there is no law or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but that all is truth without exception;
And henceforth I will go celebrate anything I see or am,
And sing and laugh, and deny nothing.

- from All is Truth by Walt Whitman

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Posted by: Karen Mahoney (

ex_kaz_maho)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 05:16 pm (UTC)

Hi! Is it okay if I start doing a Poetry Friday slot on my blog? I got the idea from you, so I'll credit you. :)

I tried the link you have at the bottom, but I'm not sure it's active anymore (though I've been getting some Firefox glitches lately.)

Cheers,
Kaz

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 05:37 pm (UTC)

Of course! Anyone may participate in Poetry Friday! It's something I picked up from another blog years ago. You can see the round-up of posts at A Year of Reading http://readingyear.blogspot.com/ each week!

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Posted by: Karen Mahoney (

ex_kaz_maho)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 05:38 pm (UTC)

Thank you for the link! :)

I've been reading a lot more poetry lately, and I thought it would be nice to share some of it.

Cheers,
Kaz

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 05:49 pm (UTC)

Love your icon!

Excellent. Thanks!

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Posted by: Karen Mahoney (

ex_kaz_maho)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 05:58 pm (UTC)

This one? :) 'tis from the lovely timepunching if you want to grab it.

Okay, I'll leave you alone now...

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 06:24 pm (UTC)

Good times, good times!
No bother. :)

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 06:25 pm (UTC)

...and by "No bother," I meant YOU are not a bother! :) I welcome the dialogue. I don't get a lot of comments here. I know people read the blog, but they don't comment!

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Posted by: Karen Mahoney (

ex_kaz_maho)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 06:32 pm (UTC)

That happens ALL the time! I know what you mean. It makes me sad when I read an awesome post online somewhere, and there are no comments. I suppose we all ready through Google Reader these days... Hell, I'm reading YOUR blog on Google Reader, and I have an LJ account and f-list, so really I'm just as bad as everyone else. ;)

I lurk all the time on readergirlz - I should try to get more involved.

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 06:42 pm (UTC)

Too funny. :)

Yes, please chime in both here and there!

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Posted by: Little Willow (

slayground)

Posted at: December 7th, 2010 05:37 pm (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know about the link. It appears to have moved:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=179694

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Posted by: Karen Mahoney (