Tip the Scales
*”Mercy, pity, and peace, Are the world’s release.”
—William Blake
it’s true:
i may not bend the world,
but the world will not bend me
together we can tip the scales
from wasteland of dust-dry throat
to world of blossoming loveliness
wherein every plant receives
fair nurturing to thrive
*Copyright Credit: William Blake, “Eternity” from The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. Copyright 1965 Doubleday & Company. Page 461.
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Oh ❤️
Love love that last line!
” fair nurturing to thrive”
Patti
Smith sings of her Blakean year.
walking with William can be…….
an adjustment.
love the opening chiasmus
I love this piece and the epigraph from Blake. Love “from wasteland of dust-dry throat/to world of blossoming loveliness”