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Days of Our Love

Posted in Abraham Hicks, Inspiration, Love, Mary Oliver, Spirituality, tagged , , on August 9, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Image Locale “Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight.” ~Mary Oliver~ What do you love?  This was a question from the powerful weekly question.  G. K. Chesterton wrote: praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.  And I say — yes, yes, it totally could be! [...]

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Prayer

Posted in Mary Oliver, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

So I purposely haven’t written about the big event that happened at our house the night after summer solstice, when it is said “the veils are thin”.  If you read Songbirds Amidst the Wreckage, then you might have guessed it.  I can say that several changes have been made in my life since then but [...]

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I Want to Write

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I Want to Write Something So Simply I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read you keep feeling it and though it be my story it will be common, though it be singular it will be known to [...]

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The Trees

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , , on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I was reading Mary Oliver poems last night from her book entitled “Evidence”.  It’s been awhile since I’ve posted her poetry.  She is such a beautiful voice for expressing her passion around life, living and nature.  I think it’s fitting then to conclude this month that heralded Spring’s arrival, with a handful of selections from [...]

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Mary Oliver: A Found Poem

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , , , on December 21, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Yes, I’ve gone and done it again.  Another found poem.  This time instead of contrasting two poets together, I have taken one poet: Mary Oliver and pulled pieces from 8 different poems to bring together a brand new poem.  I’ve taken no more than two to four lines from each poem.  Each verse is from [...]

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First Snow ~ Mary Oliver

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , , on December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty and what the meaning; such an oracular fever! flowing past windows, an energy it seemed would never ebb, never settle less than lovely! and only now, deep into night, it has finally [...]

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Mary Oliver & Wendell Berry – A Found Poem

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , , , , on October 2, 2009 | 5 Comments »

If there is such a thing as poetic license, I am certainly taking it now.  I have created what is known as a ‘found’ poem.  Up until now, this poem has not existed.  I have selected a couple of lines each from eight different poems and two different authors.  I chose Mary Oliver and Wendell [...]

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I Want

Posted in Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , on April 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »

In honor of Earth Day, it just had to be Mary Oliver that I would select, who reflects here on the foundation of Earth Day, being in partnership with our Earth I want to be in partnership with the universe like the tiger lily poking up its gorgeous head among the so-called useless weeds in [...]

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Blossom

Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, Spirituality, tagged , on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one; there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire, their satisfaction. What we know: that time chops at us all like an iron hoe, that death is a state of paralysis. What we long for: joy before death, nights in the swale — [...]

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I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life

Posted in Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Mary Oliver, Poetry, tagged , , , on February 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I struggled a bit choosing which piece to bring you today to celebrate love on this Valentine’s Day.  I finally settled on this simple and beautiful poem from Mary Oliver.  Dogs are such givers of unconditional love and if I were to live by Percy’s advice I suspect I would lead a satisfying and good [...]

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