Posted by fayeroe on March 27, 2003, at 20:49:43
In reply to Re: Talk about poems?, posted by sienna on March 26, 2003, at 17:28:36
Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
© Mary Oliverit is okay to post someone's writings if we give the credit with it. and you did! this is my favourite poem right now. i love Mary Oliver. i really like to camp out and this always puts me in a better frame of mind......thank you for posting what you did. I really like his work...
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