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November 22, 2014 3:12pm UTC

The Lamb
By Linda Gregg
It was a picture I had after the war,
a bombed English church. I was too young
to know the word English or war,
but I knew the picture.
The ruined city still seemed noble.
The cathedral with its roof bloon off
was not less godly. The church was the same
plus rain and sky. Birds flew in and out
of the holes God's fist made in the walls.
All our desire for love or children
is treated like rags by the enemy.
I knew so much and sang anyway.
Like a bird who will sing until
it is brought down. When they take
away the trees, the child picks up a stick
and says, this is a tree, this the house
and the family. As we might. Through a door
of what had been a house, into the field
of rubble, walks a single lamb, tilting
its head, curious, unafraid, hungry.

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November 22, 2014 2:55pm UTC

Broken crayons still color...

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November 22, 2014 11:50am UTC

When your happy you enjoy the music. When you're sad you understand the lyrics.

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November 21, 2014 5:26pm UTC

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore...

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