Dream Work by Mary Oliver
I was feeling saturated by Oliver's work since I had devoured most of her poetry in this lockdown. But as I picked up this book, since even in saturation her kind of poetry is easy to read at the least, I was pleasantly surprised that it was able to move me again!
Her words like always are so simple but the metaphors are strong, powerful in the softest ways. And it took me on a little flight across lovely green places I am missing so much right now. It felt relevant too. The format I was reading was not one from where I could take up the quotes but the poems will not fail in giving you a few lines which you cannot forget once read. Like I did and here I write those lines from memory
" and a world that does not need to be saved"
(How wonderful would that be? Its always save someone or save yourself. I need a world where no one needs to saved, like another great writer said whom I can't remember now - something about childhood - " a world where no child needs to be saved"
Another of Oliver's poem about Orion had this line about Orion's effect on her
" and I could not see anything beyond him, there was only the forest, the blind blank and I could not see even my own mind in front of his shine"
Haven't we experienced this even if it is not right, it is true.
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