Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mary oliver’
Every so often, I must quote poet Mary Oliver
Posted in Writers and Writing, tagged mary oliver, Poetry on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kindred Spirits #1
Posted in Poetry, tagged mary oliver, Poetry, wild geese on May 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A series of occasional posts of contemporary poetry with a Druidic spirit (in my humble druid opinion).
Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
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 [...]


