The Daily Boost #518

No creatures we can't love

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Today’s Boost comes with a special appeal for kindness.

Tom Hennen, who authored this poem, is now in memory care unit and feeling very isolated. Let’s shower him with care. Please send him a card at the following address (with no expectation of a reply):

Tom Hennen
11372 Robinson Dr. #23
Coon Rapids, MN 55433

FROM A COUNTRY OVERLOOKED
Tom Hennen

There are no creatures you cannot love.
A frog calling at God
From the moon-filled ditch
As you stand on the country road in the June night.
The sound is enough to make the stars weep
With happiness.
In the morning the landscape green
Is lifted off the ground by the scent of grass.
The day is carried across its hours
Without any effort by the shining insects
That are living their secret lives.
The space between the prairie horizons
Makes us ache with its beauty.
Cottonwood leaves click in an ancient tongue
To the farthest cold dark in the universe.
The cottonwood also talks to you
Of breeze and speckled sunlight.
You are at home in these
great empty places
along with red-wing blackbirds and sloughs.
You are comfortable in this spot
so full of grace and being
that it sparkles like jewels
spilled on water.

(from Darkness Sticks to Everything)

(My thanks to Tom Hennen.)

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