
DAILY PHOTO: Temple, Church, & Goats in Halasuru
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What could you let go of, for the sake of harmony?
The need for the world to be a certain sort of way.
It’s the only thing I can think of that letting go of would contribute to increased harmony.


crow on a post,
on rocky desolate ground;
waves lap ashore.
Someone would like to have you for her child
but you are mine.
Someone would like to rear you on a costly mat
but you are mine.
Someone would like to place you on a camel blanket
but you are mine.
I have you to rear on a torn old mat.
Someone would like to have you as her child
but you are mine.
NOTE: I have no specific author or translator information for this poem. (The former may not be surprising as it may be lost to history.) At any rate, my source is Classic Poems to Read Aloud, an anthology selected by James Berry (1995; Kingfisher Publications,) and it was titled “Lullaby.” That book cites a Cambridge University Press volume entitled African Poetry, edited by Ulli Beier, as its source.