tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444599588527265649.post2204542097189370434..comments2023-11-05T01:33:56.300-08:00Comments on The Well Fed Muse: Writing Prompt: Get In Touch With NatureWriting Padhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08457445478510415827noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5444599588527265649.post-52797882110824014022011-02-10T15:40:28.120-08:002011-02-10T15:40:28.120-08:00I thought that this Mary Oliver poem might inspire...I thought that this Mary Oliver poem might inspire some of your writing. She is one of the nature poets that we will be sampling at the Nature Walk!<br /><br />The Swan<br />By Mary Oliver<br /><br />Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?<br />Did you see it in the morning, rising into the silvery air -<br />An armful of white blossoms,<br />A perfect commotion of silk and linen as it leaned<br />into the bondage of its wings; a snowbank, a bank of lilies,<br />Biting the air with its black beak?<br />Did you hear it, fluting and whistling<br />A shrill dark music - like the rain pelting the trees - like a waterfall<br />Knifing down the black ledges?<br />And did you see it, finally, just under the clouds -<br />A white cross Streaming across the sky, its feet<br />Like black leaves, its wings Like the stretching light of the river?<br />And did you feel it, in your heart, how it pertained to everything?<br />And have you too finally figured out what beauty is for?<br />And have you changed your life?Writing Padhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08457445478510415827noreply@blogger.com