Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Into the woods by car


 Since I couldn't walk in Montreat, I drove up one of the pretty dead-end roads.



Added to Garden Bloggers Bloom Day for April.


Quote to consider:

When Death Comes
By Mary Oliver
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn;
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle-pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering:
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth,
tending, as all music does, toward silence

and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom; taking the world into my arms.
When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder 
if I have made of my life something particular, and real. 
I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, 
or full of argument. 
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world."

6 comments:

  1. ...a safe way to enjoy the sights.

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  2. I think this is the poem that we heard at a funeral quite some time ago and introduced us to Mary Oliver.

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  3. Hello, pretty and colorful trees, they are beautiful in the spring time. Married to amazement, I like that sentence. Take care, have a happy day!

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  4. Beautiful colourful trees. I like the poem especially the last line, "I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world."

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  5. Beautiful trees. And I really love that poem. There is a poem swap going around our neighborhood and we are having a good time. Thanks for yours.

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  6. That must be some walk to remember between those trees filled with flowers.

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