“Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also, / like the diligent leaves.”

[larryhammer]

For Poetry Monday:


Deer, John Drinkwater

Shy in their herding dwell the fallow deer.
They are spirits of wild sense. Nobody near
Comes upon their pastures. There a life they live,
Of sufficient beauty, phantom, fugitive,
Treading as in jungles free leopards do,
Printless as evelight, instant as dew.
The great kine are patient, and home-coming sheep
Know our bidding. The fallow deer keep
Delicate and far their counsels wild,
Never to be folded reconciled
To the spoiling hand as the poor flocks are;
Lightfoot, and swift, and unfamiliar,
These you may not hinder, unconfined
Beautiful flocks of the mind.


---L.

Subject quote from Flare, Mary Oliver.

Comments

[cmcmck]

There's a co-incidence!
I posted this one a little while back.
Great minds think alike! :o)

[larryhammer]

No coincidence -- I swiped it from you. :-)

[cmcmck]

:oD

[sartorias]

So lovely, especially that last line.

[larryhammer]

Yes -- he lands that ending perfectly.

[asakiyume]

That is beautiful, hits me in the chest, makes my eyes smart. Thank you.

[larryhammer]

De nada.

[asakiyume]

De todo ;-)

[sunlit_stone]

This is beautiful. Thank you

[larryhammer]

De nada.