So Ive been reading Oriah Mountain Dreamers book The Dance, and shes referred to several wonderful poems by great poets and I wanted to share with all of you two of them that are just awesome. XD Enjoy: Pablo Neruda Keeping Quiet If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing, perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves and of threatening ourselves with death. Mary Oliver The Swimming Lesson Feeling the icy kick, the endless waves Reaching around my life, I moved my arms And coughed, and in the end saw land. Somebody, I suppose, Remembering the medieval maxim, Had tossed me in, Had wanted me to learn to swim, Not knowing that none of us, who ever came back From that long lonely fall and frenzied rising, Ever learned anything at all About swimming, but only How to put off, one by one, Dreams and pity, love and grace, -- How to survive in any place.
Posted on: Sun, 01 Jun 2014 03:13:45 +0000
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