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ORIGINS by HALA JEAN HAMMOND

First Line: WHO SEES
Last Line: THE POET.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
Who sees
fire in a tree

who hears
symphony in
a waterfall

who plucks
Titan from a
thunderbolt --

is a god.

Who is the
fire in a tree;
who is the spirit
of the waterfall --
who is the Titan
unsheathed of lightning --

the poet.



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