# The Flame is not the Fire

> For Gerard Manley Hopkins

**Published by:** [Compossible - that which can live together](https://paragraph.com/@compossible/)
**Published on:** 2024-05-16
**Categories:** poetry, hopkins, poem, host, ghost
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@compossible/the-flame-is-not-the-fire

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Today I see the god In everythingAnd everything to me Proclaims and singsAnd dancesLike the dragonfliesIn spring Gentle reminder That the flame Is not the fire Love every hostAnd every ghost That lives within

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