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The Calm and the wild

Posted on July 28, 2012 by | 1 Comment

Some thoughts on my poem before I leave to teach class this morning…

Both of the poems I’ve learned so far (“The Loon” by Mary Oliver and “The Hosting of the Sidhe” by W.B. Yeats) have had the relationship of humans and nature contained in them, if not their reason for being. Both poems take place “twixt night and day”. There is rapture in both poems. Continue reading →

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The Loon by Mary Oliver

Posted on July 23, 2012 by | 4 Comments
THE LOON
Not quite four a.m., when the rapture of being alive
strikes me from sleep, and I rise
from the comfortable bed and go
to another room, where my books are lined up
in their neat and colorful rows. How

magical they are! I choose one
and open it. Soon
I have wandered in over the waves of the words
to the temple of thought. Continue reading →

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