Tag: Mary Oliver

poetry, poetry appreciation, reflection

clamouring toward it

Nov 12, 2024 #despair, #election, #halleluiah, #hope, #love, #Mary Oliver, #poem, #poetry, #Sheenah Pugh, #sometimes by Lucy Crispin

A poem, today, to remind us that good things can happen. No, not Sheenag Pugh’s ‘Sometimes‘. Although I’m always happy to revisit that, line 6 is a bit close to home at the moment. Instead I offer you a poem by the wonderful Mary Oliver which someone brought to a poetry group I facilitate (on 6th November. A lot of poems reminding us to be hopeful were brought that day!). See what you make of Mary Oliver’s ‘Halleluiah‘.

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poetry appreciation

an unlikely trio

Sep 3, 2020 #Advertising Space, #angels, #comfort, #despair, #Elvis, #Hughes, #inspiration, #lyricist, #lyrics, #Mary Oliver, #millennium, #nature, #Oliver, #opposites, #poem, #poetry, #Robbie Williams, #Roe-deer, #Ted Hughes, #the creative process, #vision, #Wild Geese, #writing by Lucy Crispin

It’s very often time for Mary Oliver, I find, though I know those who do not agree. For those readers, best pass by. Today I wanted to read ‘Wild Geese‘, so I am. I know most people have already read it. I know that (like other Oliver texts) it’s been plundered for Pinterest posts and self-help-seminar titles and many, many Inspirational Items (posters, mugs, t-shirts, who knows what). Still, its beauty and wisdom persist—just as the Mona Lisa survives being a jigsaw. So: enjoy ‘Wild Geese’ all over again (with the plus of hearing Oliver read it).

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what a difference an ‘a’ makes

Feb 6, 2020 #A Bitterness, #article, #bitterness, #definite article, #disappointment, #grief, #indefinite article, #love, #Mary Oliver, #Oliver, #poem, #poems, #poetry, #resentment, #sorrow by Lucy Crispin

I apologise for that appalling pun. Had to be done. If you’re still speaking to me, have a look at this poem, ‘A Bitterness’ (here), then think about what it would feel like with even only a slight change in the title—’Your bitternesss’, or just ‘Bitterness’, or even ‘The Bitterness’? Wouldn’t that make it a really different poem?

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