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Praying

Mary Oliver, Mary Oliver poetry, Secular or Eclectic, Secular or Eclectic poetry, poetry, [TRADITION SUB2] poetry, poetry by Mary Oliver
(1935 - ) Timeline

Original Language
English
Secular or Eclectic
Contemporary

It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch

a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway

into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak.

 

 

-- from Thirst: Poems, by Mary Oliver

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Themes

  Silence
 
 
 
 


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American Primitive, by Mary Oliver
Blue Iris: Poems and Essays, by Mary Oliver
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Dream Work, by Mary Oliver
God of Dirt: Mary Oliver and the Other Book of God, by Thomas W. Mann

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