This morning the redbirds’ eggs
have hatched and already the chicks
are chirping for food.
They don’t know where it’s coming from,
they just keep shouting, “More! More!”
As to anything else, they haven’t
had a single thought. Their eyes
haven’t yet opened, they know nothing
about the sky that’s waiting. Or
the thousands, the millions of trees.
The don’t even know they have wings.
And just like that, like a simple
neighborhood event, a miracle is
taking place.
~ Mary Oliver, This Morning. Felicity: Poems
Photo: Mr. Greenjeans
and that is exactly how miracles take place. they just happen without explanation.
Blink, and there it is…
Magic
Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
“Just like that” ….
And how many go unnoticed?
Far too many.
Wake up peeps!
Stomach comes first. We’ll figure the rest out later.
-Alan
I fully understand and agree with that Alan.
Nature’s miracles often go unnoticed, but Mary Oliver reminds us to stop and appreciate them.
She does that, at such a high level. So agree.
Love this one! Miraculous and magical…how she says that.
And how she manages to keep bringing magic, is magical.
Love, love, love how Oliver finds the quixotic in the quotidian….
Yes, Magic. (and yes, I had to look up quotidian – of or occurring every day; daily: the car sped noisily off through the quotidian traffic.) Love that word…