Steven Federle Poems

grey dawn rising
blaze of new light

purposeful, climbing,
breath of new height,
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Distracted, ears filled
with gossip, with chattering
laughter, hissing pots,
baroque music.
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"Love affects more than our thinking and our behavior toward those we love. It transforms our entire life." Thomas Merton.

I wish
we could live
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'Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act we have no way of knowing what we are. ' Thomas Merton

walk
through the door
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"We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work without expecting an immediate reward, to love without an instantaneous satisfaction, and to exist without any special recognition. " - Thomas Merton, from No Man is an Island
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Rising from the sea
death's veil
overcomes me.
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"A man who is truly humble cannot despair, because in the humble man there is no longer any such thing as self-pity." Thomas Merton

I am like this window
streaked with rain,
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I walk
slowly
seemingly without
aim or
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The house is dark again.

Music drifts,
softly settles
like dust
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