Wild Geese
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”~Mary Oliver
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Hi Tania. Happy Easter. How appropriate is this post for me. I’m visiting my family in Cincinnati(I live in S. Florida) and I noticed that they have a lot of these same geese everywhere. I guess that they may have just come back from the south. There are tons of them and they are all fat. I guess they had a good vacation. Thanks for sharing. Blessings!
so true! none can deny the place for every one here. Unfortunately, the sorrow clouds only when we decide to choose the place and it doesnt happen.
I love this loon. The creature sends out an energy vibration that reminds us of the power of freedom. It begins and ends inside.