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Friday, April 2, 2021

Springtime and Easter is on It's Way!

 I'm Feeling Fabulous, Possibly too much so, but I Love It

It's spring and Mockingbird is teaching himself

new ways to celebrate.

If you can imagine that - that gutsy talker.

And the sky is painting itself a brand-new

robust blue

plenty of which is spilling into the pond.

I don't weigh very much, but right now

I weigh nothing.

And my mind is, I guess you would say, compounded.

One voice is saying, The pond never looked

this blue before.

Another voice says, There couldn't be a more

splendid world, and here I am

existing in it.

I think, just for the joy of it, I'll fly.

I believe I could.

And yet another voice says, Can we come down

from the clouds now?

And some other voice answers, Okay.

But only for a while.

~ Mary Oliver, from Blue Horses

 






Joy freed from the bond of earth's slumber

rushes into numberless leaves,

and dances in the air for a day.

~ Rabindranath Tagore, from Fireflies




 Flying and dancing, an awakening of the earth in springtime

lightens my heart and gives me a new song.

Happy Springtime and Easter, dear friends! 

 

*pictures are from my home this spring/Easter season. 

The doll in the last picture scares my grandson, so I must hide it before he comes to visit. I love her. She came from a doll museum I once visited many years ago.

5 comments:

  1. This is a delightful poem by Mary Oliver. And I LOVE the pictures today of the things around your home. I finally found a little antique shop in this mountain town. It looks so nice, and can't wait to browse in there. Happy Easter to you, Marilyn.

    ~Sheri

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  2. Happy Springtime! Happy Easter! Love all of your seasonal decor! (including the 'scary' doll!)

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  3. Every image makes me smile so big and happy! I hope your Easter was a wonderful one. (I took the day off -- no computer!)

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  4. That Mary Oliver poem is pure JOY... love that! I just love all the words and thoughts here... and not least your beautiful images to go with them! I hope you & yours had a lovely Eastertime! ((LOVE & HUGS))

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