Art in life

April 20th, 2010 § 1 comment

to a precious friend living her life as art,

this poem by Mary Oliver
speaks to who you are…..

MINDFUL

Every day
I see or 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 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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