| Ask Me
Some time when the river is ice ask me I will listen to what you say. |
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—William Stafford
Taken in a place with no name (See more photos here)
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Archive for August, 2007
Poem of the Month – Sept 2007
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007Poem of the Month – August 2007
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
By Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.