I've been subscribed to this poetry site for several years. Love the poetry selected. Today it's from
Wendell Berry. The Bokonon quote I have been at-one-ment-with since I first read it....

How To Be a Poet -- Wendell Berry

Let your life be the poem you write. -- Bokonon

How To Be a Poet
(to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet.
You must depend upon
affection, reading, knowledge,
skill - more of each
than you have - inspiration,
work, growing older, patience,
for patience joins time
to eternity. Any readers
who like your work,
doubt their judgment.

Breathe with unconditional breath
the unconditioned air.
Shun electric wire.
Communicate slowly. Live
a three-dimensioned life;
stay away from screens.
Stay away from anything
that obscures the place it is in.
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places.

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