among the weeds, a budding rose,
and on this blog a literary treasure
or just doggerel - who knows!
This task, my life has taken over
I'm turning invitations down,
instead I'm pouring over paper,
my brow fixed in a rigid frown
but one month gone, so one month closer
to the end, it's tough I know,
I have to tell myself 'keep going'
only eleven more to go!
Off to a great start JC. I shall be looking forward to those months ahead, treasure, doggerel, all of value.
ReplyDeleteNow I have a little more time to myself I am discovering missed treasures, I just came upon Mary Oliver, but I guess you've already met her works?
ReplyDelete“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver
Puts me in mind of your new endeavour:
ReplyDelete“The Journey
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.”
― Mary Oliver
What a wonderful poem, Jane. Confess not to have heard of her but shall look her up now
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