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Samantha J Bryant ([personal profile] samanthabryant) wrote2019-01-17 07:06 pm
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RIP Mary Oliver

 I just learned that Mary Oliver died. She lived a long life, into her eighties, and wrote some immortal lines that will live on long beyond her sojourn on this earth. A poet could certainly do worse. Here are two of my favorites: The Summer Day, which posed one of the best questions I’ve ever been asked (Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious life?) and Wild Geese, which taught us all to be kinder to ourselves.

Mary Oliver The Summer Day








Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
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[personal profile] johncomic 2019-01-18 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
TBH poems don't usually reach me... but these did. <3 <3
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[personal profile] johncomic 2019-01-18 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
sounds like what I need