Breaking Surface Poem
The way under the way.
Breaking surface poem. July 21 2020 in poem 1 min read. Breaking surface poem by mark nepo. Breaking surface mark nepo let no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced no father who won t let one life be enough no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up no voice that tells you in the night it can t be done. Let no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced no father who won t let one life be enough no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up.
Breaking the surface 7 50 paper 1 99 kindle a chapbook of poems written about the lake house in northern wisconsin where the poet spent summers in her youth and that she still shares with her family they are poems of memory and place as well as encompassing the arc of a life lived. L et no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced no father who won t let one life be enough no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up. Let no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced no father who won t let one life be enough. A poetry of place.
Thinking like a butterfly. By what you might give up. Let nothing dissuade you from seeing. Let no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced no father who won t let one life be enough no lover who measures their worth by what you might give up no voice that tells you in the night it can t be done.
Who won t let one life be enough no lover who measures their worth. Before the twice locked gates. And finally let me share breaking surface a poem i have written for all my students. She misplaced no father.
Paia a clearing in the forest. Breaking surface let no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced no father who won t let one life be enough no lover who. The way under the way which contains three separate books of poetry gathering 217 poems retrieved and shaped over the past twenty years. These poems span my life s journey and they center on the place of true meeting that is always near where we chance to discover our shared humanity and common thread of spirit.
Let no one keep you from your journey no rabbi or priest no mother.