Poems...and other things. weedeaters and .heliconias for instance

Have been awoken to some  poetry of late...

 and so I put this here ..

 from Mary Oliver

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 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.
Wild Geese: Selected Poems is a soul-stretching read in its entirety. Complement it with Oliver’s deeply endearing Dog Songs, one of the best books of 2013.

I hope to record some more of hers here from time to time..

In the meantime, the council must have been reading my blog as they had their weed cleaning boat down at the pond today as I walked past! Unfortunately the photos I took are on my phone...and I haven't transferred them yet...ooh, look I think I just did one...

And let me leave you a taste of some heliconias I saw on the weekend...





well, maybe not all heliconias maybe? think some of them might be called beehive ginger plants ...amazing aren't they!?

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Annie said…
Please excuse some strange layout happenings here, that google or blogger has unwittingly incorporated in my post!!
It is getting late here or I would attempt a correction...but I dare not!
February 5, 2019 at 9:13 PM
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