Monthly Archives: January 2011

Whether the Wind Blow . a poem by Alice B. Clagett

Written in 2011; I indicated 1 January 2011 as date of writing; blog published on 2 January 2019; blog republished on 30 June 2020. Filmed on 8 March 2015; video published on 13 March 2015; republished on 14 Sep 2015; revised and republished on 30 June 2020.

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    • Whether the Wind Blow, A Poem by Alice B. Clagett

Dear Ones,

Here is a visionary poem I wrote in 2011. There is a Summary after the video …

VIDEO BY ALICE

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO

Hello, Dear Ones, It’s Alice.

I have a poem for you that I wrote a long time ago. There are two words that sound alike in it. The sound is /bôrn/  and the first one … ‘born’ … has the usual meaning. The second one … ‘bourne’ … sounds alike but is spelled differently; it means ‘carried’. Here is the poem …

Whether the Wind Blow
A Poem by Alice B. Clagett
2011

Whether the wind blow
or no
whether we be born
or breathed into being
or bourne, naught but eyes,
beyond ever so far
unblinking
on that breeze that flows
sparkling
between the galaxies …

If memory serves,
it was so.
So may it ever be.

Postlude

[photos of pink azaleas]

In love, light and joy,
I Am of the Stars

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