Nightmare of Letting Go (In response to the Mary Oliver quote below) Shadows will linger where your laughter used to thrive, Night’s edges have begun to sharpen with the ache of impending absence. I will reach for you and grasp only emptiness; Our space, so much colder, will have betrayed my trembling hope. Memories will..
The Loon on Oak-Head Pond cries for three days, in the gray mist. cries for the north it hopes it can find. plunges, and comes up with a slapping pickerel. blinks its red eye. cries again. you come every afternoon, and wait to hear it. you sit a long time, quiet, under the thick pines,..
Mary Oliver Revisted “I wonder a lot about whether or not you can separate an artist from their art. On the one hand it seems obvious that you can – we often fall in love with music or poems or paintings without knowing a thing about their creator. On the other hand, all art is..
We need beauty because it makes us yearn to be worthy of it. -Mary Oliver INVITATION by Mary Oliver Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to..
We need beauty because it makes us yearn to be worthy of it. -Mary Oliver Posted here is just one example of the brilliant photography of Lorne Coughlin, the inspiration for this modest poem. Ruby throated hummingbird with dahlia: A Tanka poem A hovering pause, A dazzling floral stopover, Beauty in stasis,..