Posted by OddipusRex on March 29, 2003, at 7:04:25
In reply to Re: Talk about poems?, posted by fayeroe on March 27, 2003, at 20:49:43
I like that too. I don't read a lot of poetry and had never heard of Mary Oliver. I looked her up online and found some of her poetry. I really liked "Wild Geese". The first lines were great-"You do not have to be good You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles in the desert repenting"-Well alrighty then! I've been waiting to hear that I think. I liked to camp too but it's been a long time. I have been walking on the beach and gardening. Thanks for posting the poem. It feels so good to discover something new.
> 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 Oliver
>
> it 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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