Good morning! I love you and…
POETRY
I can’t imagine life without poetry. I call them word-songs. Poems are a way to take a snapshot of Life, to attempt to frame it within words in the hopes of making you feel beyond your everyday feelings. They are like the markers along the path of pilgrimage, pointing the way, nudging you along. Poetry, good poetry, helps you grow, transform, evolve. Can we ever mention “good poetry” without including something from one of the Masters herself, Mary Oliver? I know I can’t. Here is one of her most beloved classics. I hope you enjoy.
May you have a beautiful day!
Love,
Tabitha
WILD GEESE
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
Tabitha Kot 