# The Flame is not the Fire

By Peter Howitt, 16 May 2024.
Web page: https://compossible.blog/2024/05/16/the-flame-is-not-the-fire/
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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_In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins_

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Today I see the god 

In everything

And everything to me 

Proclaims and sings

And dances

Like the dragonflies

In spring

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Gentle reminder 

That the flame 

Is not the fire

Love every host

And every ghost 

That lives within

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