• Mary Oliver,  Nature,  Poetry

    A special invitation

    “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” ~Robert Frost April is National Poetry Month — and I can’t let another day pass without celebrating it. While I’ve featured some of my favorite poetry here in the past, today I wanted to share a poem that’s new to me. Sometimes, when I need poetic inspiration, I’ll pull a poetry collection from the shelf and open it randomly to a page. Then I read the poem at least two or three times to fully experience it. Today, I turned to Mary Oliver’s 456-page Devotions anthology, letting the book fall open where it would. Here’s the beautiful poem I found ……

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