Mary Oliver, born in a small city in Ohio, is a celebrated poet who has received numerous awards that includes the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. In honor of her contributions, we’d like to share her poem: Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom, By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:08:53 +0000
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