Thursday, April 16, 2009

Halleluiah by Mary Oliver


Halleluiah
Everyone should be born into this world happy
and loving everything.
But in truth it rarely works that way.
For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it.
Halleluiah, anyway I'm not where I started!
And have you too been trudging like that, sometimes
almost forgetting how wondrous the world is
and how miraculously kind some people can be?
And have you too decided that probably nothing important
is ever easy?
Not, say, for the first sixty years.
Halleluiah, I'm sixty now, and even a little more,
and some days I feel I have wings.
~ Mary Oliver ~
(Evidence)


9 comments:

That is the chicken said...

Happy Birthday?
I love some of Oliver's poetry - only discovered it recently. This one certainly speaks to one of the joys of getting older...that nothing phases you any more.

Beth Niquette said...

How utterly beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!

Mark said...

" i told you that we could fly
cause we all have wings
but some of us dont know why."

INXS

glad that you know why.
it is a great message

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Pat @ Mille Fiori Favoriti said...

Mary Oliver has become one of my favorite poets.

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