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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Daily Cascade #1088398 added April 30, 2025 at 11:36am Restrictions: None
Do I Love This World?
Prompt:
"Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?"
Mary Oliver
Please respond to Mary Oliver's questions.
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Well, it is still April, the poetry month. So, here it goes:
Do I love this world,
its breath of wind
or hush of rain on stones?
Do I wake to the light and
call it a gift, though
shadows walk behind?
Well, the grass is soft
cradling my feet but
roots remember bones.
Still, the birds sing
the leaves lean in.
still I rise
in the morning, adoring
it all, even the ache
especially the ache.
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Mary Oliver is no fool as her work is honest, not just beautiful, but she notes that darker truths coexist wirh beauty and the inevitability of us being mortals. Suffering exists as the raw, wild pulse of this world. Do we adore it, or just tolerate or understand it?
At the end, after considering the paradoxes, we (I) arrive at a radical acceptance, to love life, not in spite of its terror, but including it.
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