beautiful poems to undersatnd

I NEVER WANTED TO INVADE

I never wanted to invade

The forest of a friend.

I never meant to plant myself

Beyond where I might end.

But there it was--I wandered in--

And seized a wild field,

And turned its berries into corn,

And took what it would yield.

Years later, we would often walk

Out to the boundary line,

And picnic where the fence once stood

That marked off what was mine.

HAVE NO FEAR, FOR LOVE IS ALL AROUND YOU

Have no fear, for love is all around you.

All come helpless from a common womb.

Perhaps you do not know that love surrounds you.

Perhaps you do not know that you're in bloom.

Yet mothers, too, are children, ever loved,

Minded by the living and the dead,

Old enough to give, as time has proved,

The need no less, though time and tears have fled.

Have faith that love's a mystic tide that flows

Equally to and from the heart,

Returning, turning as it comes and goes,

'Mid moon and moon your sea, your song, your art.

Sing, then, of this moment of your giving,

Deep within the ebb and flow of living.

All you feel is what was felt for you,

Yearning your own yearning will renew.

PASSOVER SEDERS ARE LIKE THE NIGHT SKY

Passover Seders are like the night sky:

A moment of moments long past and just gone;

Starlight years old next to planets nearby

Shining as though joined in one joyous song.

Over our heads is a book of the ages

Vividly chanting the stories of old,

Even as under our fingers are pages

Resplendent with light come from cauldrons now cold.

So may we gaze at the past in the present,

Each prayer a jewel in a darkness undone,

Destined to light on our eyes in a moment

Embracing all slaves out from Egypt as one.

Rejoice, then, in this living graveyard of light,

Singing the words, that they last one more night.