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user-inactivated · 3910 days ago · link · · parent · post: Today's Writing Prompt: The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils
Nice pair of poems by Roethke. I especially like this stanza: What’s madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day’s on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
That place among the rocks—is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.