maggie taylor
come home to yourself
sit listen embrace remember
feast on your own life
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other's welcome
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you have ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
Derek Walcott, Collected Poems 1948-1984, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
a place to be known by heart
xo
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Oh, how I love your distillation of Walcott's poem into a haiku!
Posted by: Magical Mystical Teacher | March 16, 2017 at 07:32 PM
Me too, but then that is what you do each week Rebecca prepare a feast for us, a place where we can reflect and muse and share our hearts. In just a few small words I fall in love again and again and again... XOXOXO
Posted by: Lea | March 16, 2017 at 07:57 PM
Auch ich liebe diese poetischen Zeilen immer wieder.
Sie sind ein großes Vorbild für mich.
Danke fürs verlinken.
♥liche Grüße aus Deutschland
Posted by: Jutta K. Germany | March 17, 2017 at 12:20 AM
How beautifully said and words for pondering! Have a Wonderful Saitn Patrick's Day!!!
Posted by: Cathy Keller | March 17, 2017 at 02:55 AM
What we give to others comes back to us...
Posted by: Mark | March 17, 2017 at 07:37 AM
Really interesting Walcott poem. Certainly food for thought. Thanks for sharing. xoxo sorry i missed last week...sickie :( Hoping you are feeling star studded.
Posted by: judie | March 17, 2017 at 07:37 AM
Always so inspiring to visit with you and your lovely words and photo ~ thanks,
Wishing you a Happy Day ~ ^_^
Posted by: artmusedog and carol | March 17, 2017 at 07:40 AM
Happy St. Patrick's Day, Rebecca. Love both Maggie Taylor and Derek Walcott.
Posted by: Meri | March 17, 2017 at 08:30 AM
feasting on your words
tasting drinking savoring
belly full of love
Posted by: Deb Taylor | March 17, 2017 at 10:37 AM
Much LOVE to you.
One of my favorite poems.
What a feast we have set before us.
Posted by: gemma | March 17, 2017 at 02:18 PM