Dinesh's photos with the keyword: W.S.Marwin

"On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree." ― W.S. Merwin

Thank you but Not just at the moment I know you will say I have said that before I know you have been there all along somewhere In another time zone I studied once those beautiful instructions When I was young and from here They seemed distant now from everything I remember I hoped they stayed with you When the noose started to tighter and You could say no more and after wisdom And the days in iron the eyes started from your head I know the words must have been set down Partly for yourself Unjustly condemned after a good life. I know the design of the world is beyond Our comprehension Thank you but grief is selfish and in the present when The stars do not seem to move I was not listening. I know it is not sensible to expect Fortune to grant her gifts forever I know. "To the Consolations of Philosophy” ~ W.S.Merwin

The sun sets in the cold without friends Without reproaches after all it has done for us It goes down believing in nothing When it has gone I hear the stream running after it It has brought its flute it is a long way "Dusk in Winter" ~ G.S.Merwin

Listen with the night falling we are saying thank you we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings we are running out of the glass rooms with our mouths full of food to look at the sky and say thank you we are standing by the water thanking it smiling by the windows looking out in our directions back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging after funerals we are saying thank you after the news of the dead whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you over telephones we are saying thank you in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators remembering wars and the police at the door and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you in the banks we are saying thank you in the faces of the officials and the rich and of all who will never change we go on saying thank you thank you with the animals dying around us our lost feelings we are saying thank you with the forests falling faster than the minutes of our lives we are saying thank you with the words going out like cells of a brain with the cities growing over us we are saying thank you faster and faster with nobody listening we are saying thank you we are saying thank you and waving dark though it is ~ W.S.Marwin