Tag: Poem

  • Poetry and Religion (Les Murray)

    Poetry and Religion (Les Murray)

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    Hunufa Nasir
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    Religions are poems. They concertour daylight and dreaming mind, ouremotions, instinct, breath and native gesture into the only whole thinking: poetry.Nothing’s said till it’s dreamed out in wordsand nothing’s true that figures in words only. A poem, compared with an arrayed religion,may be like a soldier’s one short marriage nightto die and live by. But…