Poetry, VOLUME 7

Mary Oliver – Blue Horses [3 Poems]

Mary Oliver

This is a new weekly feature where we highlight 3 poems from a recent collection of poetry.

If you struggle to read poetry, I recommend checking out this little essay I wrote on why poetry is important.

“Like a rich and carefully crafted dessert, one must savor a poem in order to enjoy it fully—its images, its context, its sounds. A good poem is hospitable, inviting us to sit for awhile and enter into a conversation. Poetry, however, does not come naturally for us in our times; it is a discipline to which we must commit ourselves.”

This week’s collection of poems is:

Blue Horses: Poems

Mary Oliver

Hardback: The Penguin Press, 2014
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Poem #1: What I Can Do





 

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