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    Sunday, January 24, 2010

    One of the Butterflies

    One of the Butterflies

    by W. S. Merwin
    The trouble with pleasure is the timing
    it can overtake me without warning
    and be gone before I know it is here
    it can stand facing me unrecognized
    while I am remembering somewhere else
    in another age or someone not seen
    for years and never to be seen again
    in this world and it seems that I cherish
    only now a joy I was not aware of
    when it was here although it remains
    out of reach and will not be caught or named
    or called back and if I could make it stay
    as I want to it would turn to pain.

    http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/2009/11/poster-post.html