Posts Tagged "mary oliver"
Accepting……
Readings at Koloa Practices 12/5/2011 My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird — equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young, and still not half-perfect? Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing...
Read MoreThe Summer Day
Reading at Waimea practice 7/26/11 Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean– the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down, who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms...
Read MoreThe Journey
Reading at Koloa practice 06/16/2011 One day you finally knew what you had to do and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice, Though the whole house began to tremble and you felt that old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried, but you didn’t stop, you knew what you had to do, Though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very...
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Reading at Anara practice and Koloa practice 6/8/9/2011 From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return. No answer, no coming out of it. Which is the only way to love, isn’t it? This isn’t a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. Therefore I have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. And I say to my...
Read MoreThe Journey
Reading at Anara Spa 4/06/2011 One day you finally knew what you had to do and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice though the whole house began to tremble and you felt that old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. but you didn’t stop, you knew what you had to do Though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very...
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