Tag Archives: Mary Oliver

The Nourishing Dark Bread of a Poem – Mary Oliver’s Poem, Flare

July 13, 2022 – 2:52 pm

From Flare 1. Welcome to the silly, comforting poem. It is not the sunrise, which is a red rinse, which is flaring all over the eastern sky; it is not […]

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[Not So] Silly Old Man, Wet and Laughing in the Rain – Bill Cunningham (May 16th, 1942 – January 12th, 2020) R.I.P. And You Did Not End Up Having Simply Visited This World!

January 12, 2021 – 11:39 pm

When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the […]

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The Bigness of Small Poems – # 44 in a series – Joy, Not Meant To Be a Crumb

February 28, 2019 – 5:27 pm

Days What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but […]

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No Mere Visitor to this Earth! R.I.P. Mary Oliver (1935-2019)

January 17, 2019 – 6:39 pm

When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the […]

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In Honour of the 92nd Anniversary of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Death Yesterday Three Marvellous Rilkean Knockoffs by Vuong, Oliver and Hayes

December 30, 2018 – 11:42 pm

Archaic Torso of Apollo We cannot know his legendary head with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso is still suffused with brilliance from inside, like a lamp, in […]

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When Death Came She Was Ready – A Deathbed Poem by Anna Swir

July 16, 2018 – 11:23 pm

Tomorrow They Will Carve Me Death came and stood by me. I said: I am ready. I am lying in the surgery clinic in Krakow. Tomorrow they will carve me. […]

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To Soul or Not to Soul – Poems on Soul!

January 16, 2016 – 8:18 pm

Oh, I Said My subject is the soul Difficult to talk about, Since it is invisible, Silent and often absent. Even when it shows itself In the eyes of a […]

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Poetry-As-Prayer – Calgary Nov. 27th and 28th, 2015

November 6, 2015 – 10:46 pm

                                            Dedication I sing for you. I am made […]

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Enough or Not? – Part One of Three – First, A Poem by Charles Wright

September 12, 2015 – 2:27 pm

U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Wright   WITH EDDIE AND NANCY IN AREZZO AT THE CAFÉ GRANDE Piero in wraps, the True Cross sotto restauro, Piazza desolate edge Where sunlight breaks […]

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Migrations

March 17, 2014 – 4:52 pm

Mid-March. The wild geese are back in the field in front of our house. They remind me of something I wrote back in November when they were heading the other […]

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