#dog songs mary oliver

[literary-love-songs]

Dog Songs | Mary Oliver

someone very dear to me gave me this book as a gift. i decided to finally sit down and give it a read. it’s hard to get through a poem without tears springing to my eyes.

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[lesbianjudasiscariot]

#snoopy #mary oliver #dog songs #devotions #the bottom book is wild geese #♡

[prairiedeath]

like it's literally about me. but no, it's actually about a dog. but yes, it's about me and I am a dog. but-

#mary oliver #dog songs #writing #poetry #if you get it you get it

[synechd0che]

I think something important to remember is that just because somebody on here has appointed themselves king of … early medieval lit … or cold weather composting … or Joan Didion think pieces … or whatever, that doesn’t mean they’re nice - or even correct. It takes a while to figure out who actually knows more than you, versus who just likes to act like they do.

The follow up to this being that occasionally someone is quite knowledgeable - which does nothing to sweeten how sour they are at heart. I promise you can find the same pearls of wisdom on the lips of a nicer person, and spare yourself an ulcer.

#from the Mary-Oliver-hating halls comes another volley: #*you’re obviously inspired by my poem a month challenge and you’ve decided to memorize a Fiona Apple song - #-which I’m going to ridicule you for so I can roleplay the lit teacher that tore up my papers and spit on my dog* #girl this is a cartoonish response to the tumblr equivalent of showing your rock collection to your older brother

[antigonick]

He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I’m awake, or awake enough he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. “Tell me you love me,” he says. “Tell me again.” Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask. I get to tell.

Mary Oliver, “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night”, from Dog Songs

#lit #poetry #mary oliver #dog songs

[fatassdeclanlynch]

LEVELS OF DEVOTION

It Will Come Back by Hozier // Your Dog by Soccer Mommy //  Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers // Night in the Hills by Jenna Barton // “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night” by Mary Oliver // The Edge of You by Jenna Barton

#web weaving #parallels #words #word collage #dog #phoebe bridgers #hozier #soccer mommy #music #mary oliver #poetry #art #devotion #webweaving #your dog #moon song #it will come back #jenna barton

[vueltaygiro]

Dog songs, Mary Oliver.

#poetry #poesia #mary oliver #quote #dog songs 35 poemas y un ensayo

[nellygwyn]

...and it's exceedingly short, his galloping life. Dogs die so soon. I have my stories about that grief, no doubt many of you do also. It is almost a failure of will, a failure of love, to let them grow old - or so it feels. We would do anything to keep them with us, and keep them young. The one gift we cannot give.

from Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

#for anyone wondering #my darling is still with us but #bc it's a bit touch and go #i'm trying to be realistic and take things as they come #there has been a little improvement today #which is nice #but trying not to get my hopes up bc they are hurt when they are crushed #but i'm only human. i must hope. #anyway reading mary oliver's dog songs has been helpful

[guardseden]

the sweetness of dogs, mary oliver

#i cried @ this one a lot #mary oliver #poetry #dog songs #the sweetness of dogs

[everywarmth]

nick bodimeade // mary oliver “dog songs”

#ah.. #yes it’s all different #recently one of my dogs passed away & i knew immediately to buy dog songs #has not disappointed. just. always so amazing! #mary oliver #nick bodimeade #poetry #dog songs #web weaving #parallels #dog poetry #typography #typoedit #lit

[warpspeedch1c]

"i think this is the prettiest world, so long as you don't mind a little dying."

#mary oliver #poetry #poems and poetry #literature #books to read #nature #dog songs #devotions #march 2023

[noodledesk]

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home too, and in our wild ride into modernity with all its concerns and problems we need also all the good attachments to that origin that we can keep or restore. Dog is one of the messengers of that rich and still magical first world. The dog would remind us of the pleasures of the body with its graceful physicality, and the acuity and rapture of the senses, and the beauty of forest and ocean and rain and our own breath.

Mary Oliver, Dog Songs

#mary oliver #dog songs #poetry #quotes #books #morningread

[prairiedeath]

𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑂𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑫𝒐𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔

#3 poems in and i started crying in the downtown square #my pics #mary oliver #poetry #writing #dog songs

[sierraarie]

Mary Oliver, from Dog Songs

#Dog songs #Mary Oliver #poetry #l

[antigonick]

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Percy, Waiting for Ricky”, in Dog Songs

#lit #poetry #mary oliver #dog songs

[wehavecometoanend--maybe]

#mary oliver #audio #the first time percy came back #dog songs #i like to suffer i suppose #SoundCloud