pick“Wild Geese” AND “The Journey” are both in this 1986 collection of poems by the great Mary Oliver—it‘s a powerhouse. I also loved “Dogfish,” “Morning Poem,” “Members of the Tribe,” and “One or Two Things.”
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pick“Wild Geese” AND “The Journey” are both in this 1986 collection of poems by the great Mary Oliver—it‘s a powerhouse. I also loved “Dogfish,” “Morning Poem,” “Members of the Tribe,” and “One or Two Things.”
Happy #WorldPoetryDay ! 🎉
Here‘s one of my favorites. 💕 #OzmasFavoriteQuotes
How does any of us live in this world?
One thing compensates for another, I suppose.
Sometimes what's wrong does not hurt at all, but rather
shines like a new moon.
[consequences]
Home, I said.
In every language there is a word for it.
[the river]
All night
the dark buds of dreams
open richly.
In the center
of every petal
is a letter...
[dreams]
pickBook 27
I stumbled across this one on scribd. I absolutely LOVE it!
each pond with its blazing lilies
is a prayer heard and answered lavishly,
every morning.
whether or not
you have ever dared to be happy,
whether or not
you have ever dared to pray.
[morning poem]
How does any of us live in this world?
One thing compensates for another, I suppose.
Sometimes what's wrong does not hurt at all, but rather
shines like a new moon.
Consequences, Mary Oliver
there is still
somewhere deep within you
a beast shouting that the earth
is exactly what it wanted
#worldearthday
Hi y'all! I just came across Prime Reading Library on Amazon. If you have prime you can borrow the titles mentioned under 'prime reading', for free. You'll be able to keep 10 books at once, and can get another by returning the one you have. Just borrowed a couple of titles. 😁
...
Their bright faces,
which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds –
each one a new life!
hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come...
Full poem: https://www.poeticous.com/mary-oliver/the-sunflowers
This may be the right time to discover Mary Oliver.
Dogfish : https://www.poetseers.org/contemporary-poets/mary-oliver/mary-oliver-poems/dogfi...
pickNothing is quite like starting the year with Mary Oliver‘s poetry. She is lyrical, hard-hitting, tied deeply into nature, and like no other poet.
#thebibliophage2020
#litsylovespoetry
#maryoliver
Finished:
The Mists of Avalon (51 hours | 888 pages) - took me ALL month
The Argonauts (5 hours) done in a day!
In progress:
Dream Work: delicious poetry
From Here to Eternity: the world needs more Caitlin Doughty
Know My Name: not just insights into post assault life, but a whole generation
#progressreport
@Cinfhen
pickI very much enjoyed reading this short book of poems- a very nice distraction from this boring Super Bowl.
For those interested in Mary Oliver, On Being with Krista Tippett is re-airing an interview from 2015
https://onbeing.org/programs/mary-oliver-listening-to-the-world/
1.17.19. One of my heroes, Mary Oliver, had moved on from her work here with us at 83. I made today‘s priorities her words & paired them with appropriate strengths. I then drew & watercolored her a geese—just one, perhaps preparing to take wing & join her.
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.”
pickYou can‘t go wrong with Mary Oliver; this isn‘t a favorite book or collection but it‘s still beautifully written and lovely to sit down with. And now I have a collection of her poems as a Kindle book I can take with me.
Love this book - I want to explore day poetry as a way to clear/sharpen my thinking. What a great book to begin with.
pickThis collection. This. Collection. I have no words right now.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
"I wanted
the past to go away, I wanted
to leave it, like another country; I wanted
my life to close, and open
like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls
down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;
I wanted
to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,
whoever I was, I was
alive
for a little while."
Under the orange / sticks of the sun / the heaped / ashes of night / turn into leaves again
April 19: The Journey - Mary Oliver "One day you finally knew / what you had to do and began..." #LitsyPoetry365
I've been away from Litsy for a bit but trying to get back into the swing of things. Rereading this classic poem for much needed inspiration, as copied in my bujo?. A year ago the countdown was on to do what I knew I had to do but... now I'm feeling like that journey has just created the need for another. #savingmyself #shithappens
March 7: Rage - Tonight's poem reading. Attendance of one. #chelathemexicanmutt #LitsyPoetry355
March 6: Dreams - "...and you imagine / if you could only remember / and string them all together / they would spell the answer." #LitsyPoetry365
March 5: The Journey - "But little by little... / the stars began to burn... / and there was a new voice / which you slowly / recognized as your own..."
Because nothing has been more fulfilling for me than making the life I want, challenges and all. #LitsyPoetry365
Self-care time! Sending love and care to anyone out there who needs it tonight! 💓💗💓
"All night / the dark buds of dreams / open / richly."
-Mary Oliver, "Dreams", Dream Work
#maryoliver #dreams #dreamwork #poetry #sheisafavoriteofmine
