I grabbed Yoga Joyful Living Magazine and happened to flip to the last page where there was an excerpt from what looks like a new book by Mary Oliver published in 2008 called Twelve Moons. I wanted to share this passage from one of my favorite nature poets. Beautiful words to start off my morning:
Sleeping in the Forest
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts,
her pockets full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before,
a stone on the riverbed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
~Mary Oliver~
Just beautiful! Happy Morning, Afternoon, and Night to you.
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