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Sparkle
Ireland
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 Posted - Nov 17 2009 : 1:01:11 PM
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"Mindful"
Every day
I see or hear something
that more or less
kills me with delight.
That leaves me
like a needle
in a haystack of light.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen, to lose myself
inside this soft world -
to instruct myself
over and over in joy and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the very extravagant -
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh good scholar, I say to myself,
how can you help but grow wise
with such teachings as these -
the untrimmable light of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made out of grass?
- Mary Oliver |
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