Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful
than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon
and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again
out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower
streaming upward on its heavenly oils, say, on a morning in early summer, at its perfect imperial distance– and have you ever felt for anything such wild love– do you think there is anywhere, in any language, a word billowing enough for the pleasure
that fills you, as the sun reaches out, as it warms you
as you stand there, empty-handed– or have you too turned from this world–
Ah, thank you, Susan. Result of reading: I ordered 'American Primitive' and 'The Poetry Handbook' plus Edna St. Vincent Millay's 'Collected Sonnets', 'What Lips my Lips have Kissed' and her biography. :)
The Sun
ReplyDeleteHave you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful
than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon
and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone–
and how it slides again
out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower
streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance–
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love–
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure
that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you
as you stand there,
empty-handed–
or have you too
turned from this world–
or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?
- Mary Oliver
:)
Ah, thank you, Susan.
DeleteResult of reading: I ordered 'American Primitive' and 'The Poetry Handbook' plus Edna St. Vincent Millay's 'Collected Sonnets', 'What Lips my Lips have Kissed' and her biography. :)
WOW!!!
ReplyDeleteIn natura it looked much more impressive.
DeleteI never cease to wonder! The sun, up there.........https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/active-region-on-sun-continues-to-emit-solar-flares
ReplyDeleteForgive me if I did not present the link properly, Sean. You taught me 10 years ago. I didn't have much practice.
DeleteSpectacular! Thank you for the link, Claude. It works, and thus you presented it properly. :)
DeleteThank you again.