By Mary Oliver: I Happened to Be Standing
July 10, 2021– Mary Oliver’s poems seem like prayers that anyone can pray. Spacious and simple, expansive and ordinary, they don’t require us to believe in anything in particular. But they do ask us to pay attention to the fleeting and particular space of a moment that we are living, that she has touched with such tenderness. Here you can hear her reading one of her poems: “I happened to be standing.” (770 reads)
To take actionPoetry is one of the keys to open the heart. Perhaps our understanding of ourselves and the world would change if we listened more to what poets say and a little less to the daily news. Better yet, why not write a poem from your own heart?
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