Happy Summer Solstice!
The Sun - Mary Oliver
Have you ever seen
|
anything |
in your life |
more wonderful |
than the way the sun, |
every evening, |
relaxed and easy, |
floats toward the horizon |
and into the clouds or the hills, |
or the rumpled sea, |
and is gone-- |
and how it slides again |
out of the blackness, |
every morning, |
on the other side of the world, |
like a red flower |
streaming upward on its heavenly oils, |
say, on a morning in early summer, |
at its perfect imperial distance-- |
and have you ever felt for anything |
such wild love-- |
do you think there is anywhere, in any language, |
a word billowing enough |
for the pleasure |
that fills you, |
as the sun |
reaches out, |
as it warms you |
as you stand there, |
empty-handed-- |
or have you too |
turned from this world-- |
or have you too |
gone crazy |
for power, |
for things? |
Indulging my love of poetry by posting a poem a day, every day... to inspire, delight and enlighten!
Friday 21 June 2019
Summer Solstice
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