Monday, April 16, 2012

Hello Sun




Why I Wake Early

Hello, sun in my face.
Hello, you who made the morning
and spread it over the fields
and into the faces of the tulips
and the nodding morning glories,
and into the windows of, even, the
miserable and the crotchety—

best preacher that ever was,
dear star, that just happens
to be where you are in the universe
to keep us from ever-darkness,
to ease us with warm touching,
to hold us in the great hands of light—
good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day
in happiness, in kindness.

--Mary Oliver


I love this poem and have been waiting for a good day to post it. We have had such warm, sunny weather this weekend, and it seemed like a good way to start the week, in happiness, in kindness.

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