O at the Edges

Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.

Let It Remain

Posted on October 20, 2017 by robert okaji

Let It Remain

Comfort of name,
of pleasure

freshened in
repetition, unformed

pears falling, and
the mockingbird’s

inability
to complete

another’s song.
I will take no

moment
from this day

but let it remain
here in the knowing,

in the tyranny
of the absolute

and its enforced
rhythm desiring

both flight and
maturation,

the ecstasy
of fruit grown full.

“Let It Remain” first appeared here in September 2015.

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ダニエル・シュネー on October 20, 2017 at 7:14 am said:

Pears are delicious!

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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 7:44 am said:
  
  Alas, we had to cut down our tree a while back.
  
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  - ダニエル・シュネー on October 20, 2017 at 8:40 am said:
    
    Nature abhors a vacuum…she will refill the space with what she needs…
    
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    - robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 9:21 am said:
      
      Grass, weeds, poetry…
      
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      - ダニエル・シュネー on October 20, 2017 at 1:19 pm said:
        
        grass, weeds, bugs, small birds, bees, all the good things that make poetry spring from us when we gaze upon them working in harmony…
        
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        robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 1:59 pm said:
        
        Ah, my backyard!
        
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        ダニエル・シュネー on October 20, 2017 at 3:46 pm said:
        
        grass, weeds, bugs, small birds, bees… ahh… my laundry basket!
        
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        robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 4:32 pm said:
        
        Better yours than mine!
        
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rothpoetry on October 20, 2017 at 8:21 am said:

There is nothing much better than fresh fruit sweet and delicious! Great poem Bob!

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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 9:24 am said:
  
  So true, Dwight. Thank you.
  
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S.B. on October 20, 2017 at 8:59 am said:

Very nice. Thank you for sharing.

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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 9:22 am said:
  
  Thanks very much!
  
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OnMyFeet on October 20, 2017 at 10:23 am said:

Reblogged this on On My Feet.

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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 10:38 am said:
  
  Thanks for reblogging.
  
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oyaro1998 on October 20, 2017 at 2:41 pm said:

What do you mean by this

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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 2:48 pm said:
  
  I never know how to respond to questions like this excep to ask “what does it make you feel.”
  
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  - oyaro1998 on October 20, 2017 at 2:49 pm said:
    
    What meant was that how do you get this ideas
    
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    - robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 2:53 pm said:
      
      I just sit and write day after day. And I read and observe and find questions everywhere. Most of my writing likely emerges from these questions.
      
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      - oyaro1998 on October 20, 2017 at 2:54 pm said:
        
        And are a student or professor
        
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        robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 2:57 pm said:
        
        No to both, but learning is one of my greatest delights.
        
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        oyaro1998 on October 20, 2017 at 2:58 pm said:
        
        A you akenyan
        
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        robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 3:06 pm said:
        
        I live in Texas.
        
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lamarrwenrich on October 20, 2017 at 8:04 pm said:

Yum😊 love your words and fruit!

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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 8:30 pm said:
  
  Thank you!
  
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  - lamarrwenrich on October 20, 2017 at 8:54 pm said:
    
    😊
    
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BusinessMgtblog on October 20, 2017 at 8:34 pm said:

Nice words.
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- robert okaji on October 20, 2017 at 8:38 pm said:
  
  Thank you.
  
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  - BusinessMgtblog on October 20, 2017 at 8:39 pm said:
    
    You’re welcome.
    
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E on October 21, 2017 at 12:18 am said:

Ahh, to ripen.

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- robert okaji on October 21, 2017 at 7:25 am said:
  
  Yes!
  
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ivors20 on October 21, 2017 at 5:19 am said:

Fresh fruit is the best, I have my apple and banana every day…. along with all the other rubbishy food…

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- robert okaji on October 21, 2017 at 7:27 am said:
  
  Nothing like it!
  
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johnremington on October 25, 2017 at 5:49 pm said:

O! That last couplet. ❤

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- robert okaji on October 25, 2017 at 5:58 pm said:
  
  Thank you, John. Much appreciated!
  
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