Ann Braden Yoga Therapy / Lovetree Yoga

One of the extraordinary poets of our age has passed. Mary Oliver lived and wrote with integrity and a beautiful devotion to life and nature and the essence of being human. Go in peace, Mary.
This is the poem I read in class today, a few hours before hearing of her passing. A classic.

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.

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HOW TO FIND FORGIVENESS

… after the pilgrim lanes,
and the ruined chapel,
and the lads singing beneath
the window, the corn-crake
calling from a corner of a field
and the gull cries and sea-hush
at the back of the island,
it was the way, standing still
or looking out
or walking, or even talking
with others in the evening bar,
holding your drink
or laughing with the rest,
that you realized part of you
had already dropped to its knees,
to pray, to sing, to look,
to fall in love with everything
and everyone again,
that someone from far inside you
had walked out into the sea light
to raise its hands
and forgive
everyone in your short life
you thought you couldn’t,
and that all along
you had been singing
your quiet way
through the rosary of silence
that held their names….

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Excerpted from
LEAVING THE ISLAND :
In
THE SEA IN YOU:
Twenty Poems of Requited and Unrequited Love’
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press

Photo © David Whyte
Boreen
Inishboffin, Connemara
July 2015

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." ~ Dale Turner
(painting by Shelly Penko)