Sunday Morning: As if this quiet day

~ Live & Learn

hazy-day-ocean-landscape-black-and-white

Only a beige slat of sun above the horizon,
like a shade pulled not quite down.
Otherwise, clouds.
Sea rippled here and there.
Birds reluctant to fly.

The mind wants a shaft of sun
to stir the grey porridge of clouds,
an osprey to stitch sea to sky with its barred wings,
some dramatic music: a symphony,
perhaps a Chinese gong.

But the mind always wants more than it has –
one more bright day of sun,
one more clear night in bed with the moon;
one more hour to get the words right;
one more chance for the heart in hiding
to emerge from its thicket in dried grasses –
as if this quiet day
with its tentative light weren’t enough,
as if joy weren’t strewn all around.

– Holly Hughes, Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems

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      1. Oh yeah, and we’re apparently just getting warmed up. Slated to have another 12-14″ on the ground by the time this little ‘snow hurricane’ blows through. My husband just weeps softly as he walks toward the snow blower… 😉

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  9. Love this…and I have that book, Dancing with Joy. I have quite a few of Roger Housden’s books. I learned of Mary Oliver from his book of poems, Risking Everything, which I bought many years ago. If you don’t have that one, David, I would highly, highly recommend you take a look. 🙂

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