The sun is perfect and you woke this morning.
You have enough language in your mouth to be understood.
You have a name, and someone wants to call it.
Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it.
If we just start there,
every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible.
If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.
~ Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire, 26, was born in 1988 in Kenya to Somali parents. She later emigrated to London. Shire thereafter began writing poetry as a way to connect with her Somali heritage and her roots in Somalia.
Credits:
- Photograph – Anthony Amadeo.
- Quote Source: The Sensual Starfish
- More Poems from Warsan Share: Goodreads
so greate
It is, thanks!
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Thanks for sharing Paulette.
As always, you are welcome David.
Paulette Motzko
What a gorgeous sentiment! Printing this one out…. 🙂
WLS…this I am keeping with me at all times. Perfect morning – thank you
Yes, and from someone so young…
Yes.
YES.
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….. and that is the truth!!
Smiling. YES!
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this brought me to tears. it is so lovely and so true. further proof that one’s chronological age and their level of enlightenment do not always match.
Yes. Period.
Simply beautiful. Love this poem. A good day indeed is to discover something new and beautiful. Sometimes a poem and a prayer are the same.
Thanks for sharing.
– Michael
Me too Michael. Such simplicity. So powerful. Thanks.
Beautiful…thanks David.
It is Carol. Thanks.
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Thanks for sharing Carol.
Enough, wow, yes, to remember that we have enough, and that we have the essentials! Life is good. Thank you for the reminder David.
Yes, exactly Debra. It is a WOW.
Amazing. It’s like a word version of a .gif to me, I keep circling back to the start and re-reading it. Over and over.
What a wonderful way to frame EXACTLY what I was doing. Thanks for sharing Bonnie.
I knew you would get what I meant!! Knew it!
🙂
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Live & Learn wrote:
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A wonderful reminder of how rich our lives are, if we focus on what’s truly important.
It is wonderful Peggy.
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so true
Thanks for sharing.
I needed this today…most grateful.
Me too! Thank you.
The little things that mean a lot…
They do, don’t they RoSy!
Very good point, impossible to argue that one. I shall remember that the next time my brain tells me I don’t have much! 🙂
Yes. We have MUCH…
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