humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

On Feb 18, 3:00=A0pm, Art Neuendorffer
wrote:
> On Feb 18, 1:13 pm, biggto...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to find a poem that contains these parts:
>
> > "...life is no passing memory of a life already lived,
> > but the remaining pages of a great book waiting to be read
> > It is the opening of eyes long closed"
>
> > Can anyone help me to find this work in it's entirety?
> > =A0 =A0Thank you, =A0 Tony
>
> http://www.panhala.net/Archive/The_Opening_of_Eyes.html
>
> The Opening of Eyes
>
> That day I saw beneath dark clouds
> The passing light over the water
> And I heard the voice of the world speak out
> I knew then as I have before
> Life is no passing memory of what has been
> Nor the remaining pages of a great book
> Waiting to be read
>
> It is the opening of eyes long closed
> It is the vision of far off things
> Seen for the silence they hold
> It is the heart after years of secret conversing
> Speaking out loud in the clear air
>
> It is Moses in the desert fallen to his knees
> Before the lit bush
> It is the man throwing away his shoes
> As if to enter heaven and finding himself astonished
> Opened at last
> Fallen in love
> With Solid Ground
>
> ~ =A0David Whyte ~
>
> (Songs for Coming Home: Poems, 1987)

Oops, you beat me to it, Art. By a whisker. ;)

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