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Out of Danger -- James Fenton

Guest poem sent in by Linda Fernley
(Poem #1423) Out of Danger
 Heart be kind and sign the release
 As the trees their loss approve.
 Learn as leaves must learn to fall
 Out of danger, out of love.

 What belongs to frost and thaw
 Sullen winter will not harm.
 What belongs to wind and rain
 Is out of danger from the storm.

 Jealous passion, cruel need
 Betray the heart they feed upon.
 But what belongs to earth and death
 Is out of danger from the sun.

 I was cruel, I was wrong -
 Hard to say and hard to know.
 You do not belong to me.
 You are out of danger now -

 Out of danger from the wind,
 Out of danger from the wave,
 Out of danger from the heart
 Falling, falling out of love.
-- James Fenton
I really liked 'The Ideal' (Poem #1380) and it reminded me of another Fenton I
read several years ago from his Out of Danger collection. So poignant in its
simplicity, it will strike a chord with anyone who's ever fallen out of love -
a strange combination of sadness and relief.

Linda.
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James L. Jolly said...

OUT OF DANGER is my wife of forty seven years: she is truly safe in the arms of another; Jesus, The Christ, Our savior.

James L. Jolly

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