Mary Oliver has a gift with words. This Pulitzer Prize winner and her dog are captured in a quiet moment to the right.Following is a great poem of Ms. Oliver's:
Wild Geese
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.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
~Mary Oliver
Copyright 2010 Heather Corwin
This is my favorite poem! I love her! She came and spoke at Belmont last fall and was amazing. I just read one of her poems at a memorial service called One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day. Her words and her story are so inspiring. Thanks for sharing!
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