When it's over, I want to
say: all my life
I was a bride married to
amazement.
I was the bridegroom,
taking the world into my
arms.
—Mary Oliver, "When Death Comes"
Category: poetry
Instructions For Living a Life
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
–Mary Oliver, “Sometimes”
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
NYT Haikus
Not all are masterpieces, but there are some gems here.
The Best of Wendell Barry on Orion
“This week we celebrate Wendell Berry’s eighty-sixth birthday by sharing several of our staff’s all-time favorite essays, poems, short stories, and media clips published in Orion over the past four decades.”
—Orion Staff, “The Best of Wendell Berry.” Orion. August 5, 2020.
For the Sake of Strangers by Dorianne Laux
Lovely, one minute poem.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/152177/for-the-sake-of-strangers
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day.
—Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art.” Poetry Foundation. 1979.
If Money Grew on Trees
"...I understand that you don’t understand Money don’t grow on trees And if it did, Those trees would grow So far away It would be work to get it " "L'Argent" by Lorenzo Thomas
How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett | Poetry Foundation
“Be skeptical about all opinions, but try to see some value in each of them.”
-Ron Padgett, “How to be Perfect.” Poetry Foundation. 2013.
A collection of life lessons, most are good.
5 ANTI-MANIFESTS — ALIENIST MANIFESTO
…Police-state crematoria…Cyberflesh…Life must be boring before it can be lived…Because language is the most important aspect of death, they taught themselves to amputate in silence…the hallucinated futures of a lunatic…Walt Whitman didn’t kill Che Guevara.”
5 ANTI-MANIFESTS — ALIENIST MANIFESTO
I may not understand the words, but I get your meaning.
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