{"id":1807,"date":"2016-03-30T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T04:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:47:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:47:51","slug":"wednesday-march-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2016\/03\/30\/wednesday-march-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday March 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday late evening, a poem to close a busy day<\/p>\n

I was working late last night (a talk in a small town called Tecumseh c. 65 miles from home in Detroit), then a friend whom I drove home. \u00a0Up early to make coffee for this month\u2019s half day Mission Retreat, a beautiful group of women and men who work at the university. \u00a0Then catching up on misc stuff and reading emails until just now. \u00a0When I read a good friend\u2019s email. \u00a0He sent me this poem which, he thinks, sounds like poems that move me.<\/p>\n

Right on that it seems. \u00a0This poem makes a place where I feel at home and welcome. \u00a0A good way to end a fine day. \u00a0Perhaps for you too.<\/p>\n

If you are up late and read this before sleep, suenos dulce. \u00a0If you see it after you wake on Thursday, have a blest day. \u00a0Either way, the poem should reward you if you read it out loud, with pauses, without hurry.<\/p>\n

john sj<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Post \u00a0 “Love after Love”<\/p>\n

The time will come
\nwhen, with elation,
\nyou will greet yourself arriving
\nat your own door, in your own mirror,
\nand each will smile at the other\u2019s welcome,<\/p>\n

and say, sit here. Eat.
\nYou will love again the stranger who was your self.
\nGive wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
\nto itself, to the stranger who has loved you<\/p>\n

all your life, whom you ignored
\nfor another, who knows you by heart.
\nTake down the love letters from the bookshelf,<\/p>\n

the photographs, the desperate notes,
\npeel your own image from the mirror.
\nSit. Feast on your life.<\/p>\n

– Derek Walcott<\/p>\n

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Sir Derek Alton Walcott<\/strong>,\u00a0KCSL<\/a>\u00a0OBE<\/a>\u00a0OCC<\/a>\u00a0(born 23 January 1930) is a\u00a0Saint Lucian<\/a>–\u00a0Trinidadian<\/a>\u00a0poet and playwright. He received the 1992\u00a0Nobel Prize in Literature<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0He is currently Professor of Poetry at the\u00a0University of Essex<\/a><\/p>\n

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