Poem segment

Yesterday I posted a short bit of poetry from Wendell Berry on the facebook page and it was received well so I thought I would try again with a longer segment here on the blog. These are the last three stanzas of Mary Oliver's "The Ponds" from the collection "Houses of Light"

Still, what I want in my life

is to be willing

to be dazzled-

to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even

to float a little

above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.

I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing-

that the light is everything-that it is more than the sum

of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.

Mary Oliver is the winner of the 1984 Pulitzer prize for poetry, and one of my favorites.

-Michael