To make of every poem
a challenge; face with joy an
honourable failure; blaze
with glorious sadness:
laughing at the glory,
smiling at the sadness;

but hearing in the heart
that which cannot be said, but
is to be ever listened to:
unknown, formless, eternal, always present.

Michael Shepherd

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