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Les (Leslie Allan) Murray is one of the most recognized Australian poets (recently deceased).
He developed this literacy career for more than forty years. His extensive work led him to become the most important contemporary writer in Australia. The nearly thirty books of poetry and two novels in verse that the published during his career are steeped in Australian rural life.
More poems by Les Murray: https://www.poemhunter.com/les-murray/
The Meaning of Existence
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.
Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.
Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.
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