Miracles (poem by Walt Whitman)
Why, who makes much of a miracle?
As to me I know of nothing else but miracles…
poetry by others
Meditation on a Grapefruit (Poem by Craig Arnold)
Each year harder to live without. Each year harder to live without.
Blessing (poem by John O’Donohue)
May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
may the clarity of light be yours,
may the fluency of the ocean be yours,
may the protection of the ancestors be yours…
Wherever You Are (Poem by Maxine Shore)
We are all beloved of the one Father, directed, protected, sustained by Him.
Delivered from a Drift (poem by Emily Polis Gibson)
Saved by a storm and dug out from a drift:
I celebrate each time I hear your voice singing,
knowing you are a thread born to knit and mend hearts.
Appalachian Carol
When Mary birthed Jesus ’twas in a cow’s stall
With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all
But high from God’s heaven, a star’s light did fall
And the promise of ages it then did recall.
Books of Poetry I’ve Been Enjoying
I’ve been enjoying these two books of poetry lately and have marked some to eventually share with you.
Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (Book Review with Quotes)
This book is billed as a novel, but it is a record of a fictitious woman poet being interviewed, including all her mind’s meanderings and flashbacks.
Everything (poem by Mary Oliver)
I want to make poems that say right out, plainly,
what I mean, that don’t go looking for the
laces of elaboration, puffed sleeves.
Homeward Bound (Poem by Sandy Wilder)
The simple beauty of walking in your truth because it is your own truth, is the path we eventually return to.
Hope (Poem by Lisel Mueller)
It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
it shakes sleep from its eyes
and drops from mushroom gills,
Peony Photos (with a poem by Mary Oliver)
The peonies this year have been exceptional as you can see by the volume of photos in this post. The weather stayed cool for quite a while allowing these beauties to linger until now that it has finally gotten hot.
Singing Around Obstacles (Two Poems, Same Brilliant Analogy)
I love the metaphor both of these pieces utilize. Indeed, take heart! “The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
I Believe (Song by Carrie Newcomer)
I believe in a good strong cup of ginger tea
And all these shoots and roots will become a tree
A Mockingbird Sings (a poem by Sydney Eddison)
Beneath the windows where my mother sat, a mockingbird sang– a slender, pale, gray bird…
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Poem by William Wordsworth)
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;