Valentine foe Ernest Mann, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Wikd Geese, Mary Oliver. Opened me to where poems are hiding... in what the soft animal of ny body loves.
I could also have listed so many of the dog-eared pages in Poetry of Presence, but those two poems opened me decades ago to the saving grace of poetry. ♥️
Rudyard Kipling- Gunga Din
I'm going to have to go back and look at that!
The Guest House by Rumi.
Yes.
Valentine foe Ernest Mann, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Wikd Geese, Mary Oliver. Opened me to where poems are hiding... in what the soft animal of ny body loves.
I hadn't read the Nye poem. Thank you!
Glad you could translate my thumb-tapped-typos!😊
I could also have listed so many of the dog-eared pages in Poetry of Presence, but those two poems opened me decades ago to the saving grace of poetry. ♥️
I hear you, even through thumb-tapped-typos!
The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry
“When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water,
and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.”
Yes.
Maya Angelou: A Brave and Startling Truth ,and Still I Rise. A second vote for The Peace of Wild Things
Yes. Yes. Yes.