#William Stafford

[mournfulroses]

William Stafford, from Selected Poems; "For My Young Friends Who Are Afraid,"

[loveisdamnation]

you’ve still got time

tiny beautiful things, cheryl strayed | wild geese, mary oliver | anna akhmatova | tuesday, alex dimitrov | sunrise, louise glück | just thinking, william stafford | night walk, franz wright | why be happy when you could be normal?, jeanette winterson

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

William Stafford

[firstfullmoon]

William Stafford, “Assurance”

[havingapoemwithyou]

yes by William Stafford

[mortalpractice]

Yes

It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation.

It could, you know. That’s why we wake and look out — no guarantees in this life.

But some bonuses, like morning, like right now, like noon, like evening.

— William Stafford, The Way It Is

[geopsych]

The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. —William Stafford

[nobeerreviews]

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

-- William Stafford

(lake Zurich, Switzerland)

[literarymood]

― Our Story by William Stafford

[majestativa]

The dungeons of silence explode. […] Armageddon is getting ready to thunder.

— KONSTANTIN PAVLOV ⚜️ Window on the Black Sea: Bulgarian Poetry in Translation, transl. by William Stafford, (1992)

[petaltexturedskies]

Now I carry those days in a tiny box wherever I go. I open the lid like this and let the light glimpse and then glance away. There is a sigh like my breath when I do this. Some days I do this again and again.

William Stafford, from "Remembering" in The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems

[seekingstars]

It's All Right - William Stafford

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The Magnificence of Denali

One thing remains the same: Denali will always be Denali to Alaskans.

Denali is the Koyukon Athabaskan name for the mountain, meaning “the high one” or “the tall one,” a name we feel appropriately honors the region’s many generations of Indigenous stewardship. Let it remain.

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“Now I carry those days in a tiny box wherever I go. I open the lid like this and let the light glimpse and then glance away. There is a sigh like my breath when I do this. Some days I do this again and again.”

— William Stafford, from “Remembering,” The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems, ed. Robert Bly (HarperPerennial, 1993)

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Abbott Elementary cast at Ava Fest San Diego Comic Con 2024

[havingapoemwithyou]

you reading this, be ready by William Stafford