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My favorite poem is by Robert Frost. I memorized this poem for myself when I was a teenager. I have repeated it like a little prayer whenever I have needed peace, or to reassure myself that there are 'saturated meadows' for me to find.
—Submitted by Carroll Green, Kalamazoo, MI Rose Pogonias A saturated meadow, Sun-shaped and jewel-small, A circle scarcely wider Than the trees around were tall; Where winds were quite excluded, And the air was stifling sweet With the breath of many flowers,— A temple of the heat. There we bowed us in the burning, As the sun's right worship is, To pick where none could miss them A thousand orchises; For though the grass was scattered, Yet ever second spear Seemed tipped with wings of color That tinged the atmosphere. We raised a simple prayer Before we left the spot, That in the general mowing That place might be forgot; Or if not all so favored, Obtain such grace of hours, That none should mow the grass there While so confused with flowers. —Robert Frost
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