
J. Drew Lanham reads his poem “Love for a Song”
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Love for a song written and read by drew lanhamlove is barter. Love is bits of affection traded for pieces of adoration. It is desire doled out on the whipper will summer wanting. In self harmonizing sonata, we revel in wild flowers bloom. Marvel in migratory sojourns of birds, dodging falling stars. Sink yourself deep in the dizzying dance of pollen runk bees. Find hope in the relieved canopies of the tallest trees. Wind and water, storm and surf, they can move us to other ends. Therein is the honey sweet seduction. Nature asks only that we notice a sunrise here, a sunset, there,...
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