Theodore Roethke

Those who are willing to be vulnerable

Theodore Roethke | September 2016 (Vol. XXIX, No. 8)
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among the mysteries.
~ Theodore Roethke

Make me, O Lord, at last, a simple thing

Theodore Roethke | January 2014 (Vol. XXVII, No. 1)

Make me, O Lord, at last, a simple thing
Time cannot overwhelm.
Once I transcended time
A bud broke to a rose.
And I rose from a last diminishing.

~ from "In Evening Air" (abridged) in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF THEODORE ROETHKE, as reprinted in AN ALMANAC FOR THE SOUL by Marv and Nancy Hiles

And everything comes to One

Theodore Roethke | April 2007 (Vol. XX, No. 4)

. . And everything comes to One
As we dance on, dance on, dance on.

~ Theodore Roethke
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