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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: "Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?" Mary Oliver Please respond to Mary Oliver's questions. ------ Well, it is still April, the poetry month. So, here it goes: Do I love this world, its breath of wind or hush of rain on stones? Do I wake to the light and call it a gift, though shadows walk behind? Well, the grass is soft cradling my feet but roots remember bones. Still, the birds sing the leaves lean in. still I rise in the morning, adoring it all, even the ache especially the ache. -------- Mary Oliver is no fool as her work is honest, not just beautiful, but she notes that darker truths coexist wirh beauty and the inevitability of us being mortals. Suffering exists as the raw, wild pulse of this world. Do we adore it, or just tolerate or understand it? At the end, after considering the paradoxes, we (I) arrive at a radical acceptance, to love life, not in spite of its terror, but including it. |
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you. I always like Mary Oliver's directness and her insights. I, like you, also think of her as an incredible poet, too. 
