Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.
Linda HoganIt is a paradox in the contemporary world that in our desire for peace we must willingly give ourselves to struggle.
Linda HoganThere is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true.
Linda HoganThe crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.
Linda HoganLet's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can't we swallow the sweetness and can't you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.
Linda HoganA woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years Iโve envisioned that womanโs silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf.
Linda Hogan