I love anything that makes me stop, think, and appreciate. Wether it be a poem or a song. Sometimes we need a little reminder. A reminder to live each day, love each day, and kiss our babies a million times. I wanted to share this reminder with you today.
What will you do with your one wild and precious life?
The Summer Day
By:Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?
4 comments:
Oh my gosh! I LOVE this. I took SO many english classes in high school and college... including two that focused on poetry specifically. Yet I've never read this one. Goes to show how many wonderful poems are out there!
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