Artist: Robert Bly
Lyrics of Artist: Robert Bly
Lyrics of Artist: Robert Bly
[Lyric] The Buried Train (Robert Bly)
Tell me about the train that people say got buried By the avalanche--was it snow?--It was In Colorado, and no one saw it happen. There was smoke from the engine curling up Lightly through fir tops, and the engine sounds. There were all those people reading--some From Thoreau, some from Henry Ward Beecher. And the engineer smoking and putting his...Learn MoremiscRobert Bly[Lyric] What Things Want (Robert Bly)
You have to let things Occupy their own space. This room is small, But the green settee Likes to be here. The big marsh reeds, Crowding out the slough, Find the world good. You have to let things Be as they are. Who knows which of us Deserves the world more?...Learn MoremiscRobert Bly[Lyric] The Cat in the Kitchen (Robert Bly)
Have you heard about the boy who walked by The black water? I won't say much more. Let's wait a few years. It wanted to be entered. Sometimes a man walks by a pond, and a hand Reaches out and pulls him in. There was no Intention, exactly. The pond was lonely, or needed Calcium, bones would do. What happened then? It was a little like the night...Learn MoremiscRobert Bly