'FINE'
and she says, 'hey, how u doing?'
and I smile 'fine' into the phone
if she'd skype, I'd not have answered
cos then she would have known
that I am lying on my bedroom floor
a starfish on a rug
glass of wine, stinging eyes
desperate for a hug
that I worry I'm not coping
that I feel like throwing up
that I cannot keep up with my work
that I'm frightened when it's night
I ask her how she's doing
'oh,' she says, 'I'm fine'
Wendell Berry
'Stay Home'
I will wait here in the fields
to see how well the rain
brings on the grass
In the labor of the fields
longer than a man's life
I am at home. Don't come with me.
You stay home too.
I will be standing in the woods
where the old trees
move only with the wind
and then with gravity.
In the stillness of the trees
I am at home. Don't come with me.
You stay home too.
Carol Ann Duffy
"The Woman in The Moon"
Darlings, I write to you from the moon
Where I hide behind famous light
How could you think it ever a man up here?
A cow jumped over. The dish ran away with
The spoon. What reached me were your joys, griefs
Here’s-the-craic, losses, longings, your lives
Brief, mine long, a talented lonlieness. I must have
A thousand names for the earth, my blue vocation.
Round I go, the moon a diet of light, sliver of pear
Wedge of lemon, slice of melon, half an orange,
Silver onion; your human sound falling through space,
Childbirth’s song, the lovers song, the song of death.
Devoted as words to things, I gaze, gawp, glare; deserts
Where forests were, sick seas. When night comes,
I see you gaping back as though you hear my Darlings,
What have you done, what have you done to the world?
David Hockney
"We two boys together clinging"
We two boys together clinging
One the other never leaving
Up and down the roads going
North and South Excursions making
Power enjoying – elbows stretching,
Fingers clutching, Armed and fearless,
Eating, drinking, sleeping, loving
No love less than ourselves owning,
Sailing, soldiering, thieving, threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming,
Air breathing, water drinking,
Ón the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning,
Statutes mocking, feebleness chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.
Rose Miligan
'Dust if you must'
Dust if you must, but wouldn't it be better To paint a picture, or write a letter, Bake a cake, or plant a seed; Ponder the difference between want and need? Dust if you must, but there's not much time, With rivers to swim, and mountains to climb; Music to hear, and books to read; Friends to cherish, and life to lead. Dust if you must, but the world's out there With the sun in your eyes, and the wind in your hair; A flutter of snow, a shower of rain, This day will not come around again. Dust if you must, but bear in mind, Old age will come and it's not kind. And when you go (and go you must) You, yourself, will make more dust.
Mary Oliver
"Teach the Children"
Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do.
Show them daisies an the pale hepticia.
Teach them the taste of sassafras an wintergreen.
The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers.
And the frisky ones – inkberry, lamb’s- quarters, blueberries.
And the aromatic ones – Rosemary, oregano.
Give them peppermint to put in their pocket as they go to school.
Give them the fields and the woods an the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit.
Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leave and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.
Attention is the beginning of devotion
John Greenleaf Whittier
"Don't Quit"
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will;
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low an the debts are high;
And you want to smile but you have to sigh.
When all is pressing you down a bit –
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit
Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit –
It’s when things go wrong that you must not quit.
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