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Good Words

March 11, 2016 By Jenny Ryan Leave a Comment

“Mindful” – by Mary Oliver

Every day
I see or I hear
Something
That more or less

Kills me
With delight,
That leaves me
Like a needle

In the haystack
of light.
It is what I was born for –
To look, to listen,

To lose myself
Inside this soft world –
To instruct myself
Over and over

In joy and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
About the exceptional,

The fearful, the dreadful,
The very extravagant –
But of the ordinary,
The common, the very drab,

The daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
How can you help

But grow wise
With such teachings
As these –
The untrimmable light

Of the world,
The ocean’s shine,
The prayers that are made
Out of grass?

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