"Poem 133: The Summer Day", by Mary Oliver
A dear student mentioned this poem in class a few days ago (thank you for reminding us of this one, Eileen!): Poem 133: The Summer Day...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Aug 28, 2022
- 1 min
"Poem Of The One World", by Mary Oliver
My friend Toni Goodman shared this beautiful Mary Oliver poem with us. Thank you Toni, my poetry mentor! Poem of the One World Mary...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 21, 2019
- 1 min
"I Worried", by Mary Oliver
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
"Of Love", by Mary Oliver
I have been in love more times than one, thank the Lord. Sometimes it was lasting whether active or not. Sometimes it was all but...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 21, 2019
- 2 min
"To Begin With The Sweet Grass", by Mary Oliver
Will the hungry ox stand in the field and not eat of the sweet grass? Will the owl bite off its own wings? Will the lark forget to lift...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Aug 28, 2018
- 1 min
"At Blackwater Pond", by Mary Oliver
At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Apr 24, 2018
- 1 min
"Poppies", by Mary Oliver
The poppies send up their orange flares; swaying in the wind, their congregations are a levitation of bright dust, of thin and lacy...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Sep 20, 2017
- 1 min
"Landscape", by Mary Oliver
Landscape Mary Oliver Isn't it plain the sheets of moss, except that they have no tongues, could lecture all day if they wanted about ...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jul 12, 2017
- 1 min
"Upstream" excerpt, by Mary Oliver
Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me,...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jun 1, 2017
- 1 min
"Mysteries, Yes", by Mary Oliver
MYSTERIES, YES by Mary Oliver, from Evidence (Beacon Press) Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 30, 2016
- 1 min
"Song of the Builders", by Mary Oliver
On a summer morning I sat down on a hillside to think about God – a worthy pastime. Near me, I saw a single cricket; it was moving the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 17, 2016
- 1 min
"Loneliness", by Mary Oliver
I too have known loneliness. I too have known what it is to feel misunderstood, rejected, and suddenly not at all beautiful. Oh, mother...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 7, 2016
- 1 min
"Why I Wake Early", by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 25, 2015
- 1 min
"Wild Geese", by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 22, 2015
- 1 min
"Look and See", by Mary Oliver
This morning, at waterside, a sparrow flew to a water rock and landed, by error, on the back of an eider duck; lightly it fluttered off,...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 22, 2015
- 1 min
"Why I Wake Early", by Mary Oliver
Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 22, 2015
- 1 min
"When Death Comes", by Mary Oliver
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Apr 14, 2015
- 1 min
"Spring Azures" by Mary Oliver
In spring the blue azures bow down at the edges of shallow puddles to drink the black rain water. Then they rise and float away into the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 16, 2015
- 1 min
"Lingering in Happiness" by Mary Oliver
After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 8, 2015
- 1 min
"When I Am Among the Trees" by Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...
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