Blogs about: Mary Oliver
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"The light of reason..."
At daybreak, the Pileated Woodpecker gores the locust tree behind the shed. It’s barely above zero and snowing tiny cold crystals. I watch and count the male cardinals. Nine, I think. Towhees, … more →
My Inner Edge
Photo of the Day #2: A Flash of Blue, English Lake District
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Sally wrote 3 days ago: Photo of the Day: As we get to know one another, you’ll find that fine art photography has be … more →
the old poets of china :: mary oliver
piapest wrote 4 days ago: Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do n … more →
Featured Poems: Two Poems by Mary Oliver
csbhagya wrote 1 week ago: The Dipper Once I saw in a quick-falling, white-veined stream, among the leafed islands of the wet r … more →
Mary Oliver, "The Black Snake"
clayclocked wrote 1 week ago: Mary Oliver successfully impresses upon the reader that in this poem, death is sudden, fast, and per … more →
Bloggin' at The Bark
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bethfinke wrote 1 week ago: Hanni is my co-pilot. (Photo by Kaitlyn Cashman) A story in the San Francisco Weekly last week descr … more →
Invitation
Mikael wrote 1 week ago: Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for t … more →
Father's Day By the Sea
Daniel Lukasik - © Lawyers With Depression 2009 wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s Sunday night, still Father’s Day. I’m on vacation with my family in Myrtle Beach, South Caroli … more →
The Comfort of a Poem
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Beth Morgan wrote 2 weeks ago: from Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver (Beacon Press, 2009): Mysteries, Yes Truly, we live with mysteri … more →
moments ...
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oh wrote 2 weeks ago: It’s a bleating rain – it whines as it falls through the air and smashes against the win … more →
The White Dwarves Defend Their Honor (original poem)
Mark Nielsen wrote 3 weeks ago: Don’t quote me on the science (i.e. Polaris might not be a blue giant). Just see the silly lit … more →
Bread passed along for my journey
Kenn Chaplin wrote 3 weeks ago: One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting t … more →
Tokens for Today
Sar wrote 3 weeks ago: In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to … more →
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RM Sorg wrote 3 weeks ago: This is for @ServantofGospel who loves poetry so much and anyone else who enjoys poetry! The Journey … more →
How to Fold a Poem
buckets of rain wrote 3 weeks ago: . . . or an Elephant . . . (a followup to It’s a Gift!) Part I: Find a poem. Pull it apart. F … more →
The time of Matariki
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Alison wrote 4 weeks ago: In today’s Sunday Magazine, Ray McVinnie has two recipes as a suggestion for a meal to celebra … more →
In about one year you'll have it all figured out
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Allison wrote 1 month ago: Although I have managed to come upon employment (thank you craigslist), I am still struggling with t … more →
Furnace
Stan Geronimo wrote 1 month ago: Dumaguete. Dumas Goethe. The pun is from the southern sage Cesar Aquino. How this bardic wordplay de … more →
the sun :: mary oliver
piapest wrote 1 month ago: Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed … more →
The Devotion of Father Teresa - an original poem
Mark Nielsen wrote 1 month ago: Devotion (aka The Devotion of Father Teresa) by Mark Nielsen, June 2009 I’ve got this poem … more →
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