a thousand mornings - mary oliver
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I was the pond lily, my root delicate as an artery, my face like a star, my happiness brimming.
Mary Oliver, from “Life Story” in A Thousand Mornings
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Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
Have I endured loneliness with grace?
Mary Oliver, The Gardener, A Thousand Mornings
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I haven't read much poetry since grad school, but I was wandering around the library and there was this little volume by Mary Oliver (A Thousand Mornings) so I picked it up.
WAS IT NECESSARY TO DO IT?
I tell you that ant is very alive!
Look at how he fusses at being stepped on.
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He kissed me until there was no part of me that didn’t know who it belonged to. He kissed me until my heart again fused with his—two halves of one whole.
Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses
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It is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.
Mary Oliver, “Invitation,” A Thousand Mornings (New York: Penguin Books, 2013
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🌧 A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver
It’s always hard to choose a favorite Mary Oliver poem but in this collection my top 3 were:
1. “The Moth, the Mountains, the Rivers”
2. “Poem of the One World”
3. “For I Will Consider My Dog Percy”
This was an excellent collection full of blessings and introspections on life. One of my favorite parts of “Poem of the One World” was:
“…where everything/ sooner or later/ is a part of everything else…”
“…which thought made me feel/ for a little while/ quite beautiful myself.”
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— Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems
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“He had power only to feel, and feeling was torment.”
— Mary Oliver, from Hum, Hum in “A Thousand Mornings”
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He wanted a body
so he took mine.
Some wounds never vanish.
— Mary Oliver, “Hum, Hum” (from A Thousand Mornings)
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Reading some Mary Oliver on my back porch will fix me
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a thousand mornings - mary oliver
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Mary Oliver, from Life Story in A Thousand Mornings
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"All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed by morning, the light deepening, the wind easing and just waiting, as I too wait (and when have I ever been disappointed?) for redbird to sing."
— A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver in A Thousand Mornings
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One more poem I found yesterday and remembered as soon as I got online this morning
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I recall saying this before, but it bears repeating:
There could be a billion trans people in the world and it still wouldn't be a bad thing because being trans is not a bad thing. Even if the rate of people discovering they are trans is "disproportionate" to trends from decades ago, that is not a bad thing. In fact, it's a natural consequence for there being more trans people being able to stay alive, and, overall, being able to live in a slightly more tolerant world. You'd only see that as a bad thing if you actively didn't want trans people to either live or live a life that facilitates wellness.
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