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Friend— Wake Up! Friend— Wake up! Why do you go on sleeping? Mahler's Frère Jacques song is a funeral dirge for Old Man Winter. So wake up to the Song of Earth, the blooming flowers of Spring. What is the new love that opens the gates? Read Dante's Vita Nuova to learn from a poet who has awakened his beautiful woman within for the soul must descend to taste the inferno depth of the dark before its cleansing with light so the spirit may ascend to the bliss of paradise. Friend— Wake up! Wake up! — Peter Y. Chou Stanford, 4-9-2008 15-minutes poetry writing exercise that Robert Bly gave to Stanford class in his Workshop, starting with Kabir's line: "Friend— Wake up! Why do you go on sleeping?" |
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