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“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
- Virginia Satir (1916–1988), American author and therapist
In school one encounters a lot of different things.
One of the poets I read was Edwin Markham (1852–1940).
Born Charles Edward Anson Markham, he was Poet Laureate of OR from 1923–1931. He wrote a number of poems, most longer and some more memorable than the one to be found below.
But the one I recall is this short one, entitled “Outwitted”:
“He drew a circle that shut me out –
Heretic, rebel, thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle that took him in.”
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