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what falls away
Posted by: syd (---.vtc.net)
Date: January 09, 2022 09:47PM

there is a poem which repeats the phrase "what falls away" at the end of what I believe are four sections. I thought it was a Wallace Stevens poem, but it is not. It's is possible it is by Theodore Roethke but I can't seem to confirm it.
The actress Mia Farrow used this poem as a sort of preface to her autobiography and took her title from the poem's phrase "What Falls Away." Anyone know the poem's title and its author?


Re: what falls away
Posted by: ilza (---.162.243.191.sao.ajato.com.br)
Date: January 10, 2022 05:01AM

not quites as you mention, but could it be this one ... ?

The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

-- Theodore Roethke


Re: what falls away
Posted by: ilza (---.162.243.191.sao.ajato.com.br)
Date: January 10, 2022 05:09AM

it seems that Steven Lautermilch wrote a poem with this title
- but I can't find it




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