Book cover. All Flesh is Grass by Clifford D. Simak (Sci Fi / 1965) Pink cover, top shows a person's face and below is plants. Middle is a black bar and title inset in white letters.

Book cover. Devotions by Mary Oliver (Poetry Collection / 2017) Cover is white and inset in the middle a person has a bird on their finger and is feeding it.

Book cover. Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson (Alt History / 1988) Purple cover shows hillsides shaded from light at top to dark at bottom

Book cover. Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin (Hist Fic / Mythology / 2008) Light green or maybe cream cover, titles in gold letters and in the middle are gold olive leaves.

💙📚 #BlueSkyBooks #LatestPurchases (Apr 2026)
Books arriving and also checking out my locals
#Books4Brains #TheLaughingOyster #BlueHeronBooks
#UrsulaKLeguin #CliffordDSimak #TerryBisson #MaryOliver
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What Book Could I Read Over and Over Again? #dailyprompt-1902 Well, this is a daily prompt right up my alley . . . or library, rather. #WordPressDailyPrompt-1902 #Books #Poetry #MaryOliver #Reading #DogSongs #RainbowRowell When I was young, I frequently re-read books like Old Yeller and Little Women before discovering the world of Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden (yep, I imagine that there's a whole generation or four that have never heard of Trixie Belden, but I loved those stories even more than Nancy Drew). Some time in my teens, I adopted the mindset: so many books, so little time and have adhered to it ever since.

What Book Could I Read Over and Over Again? #dailyprompt-1902

Well, this is a daily prompt right up my alley . . . or library, rather. #WordPressDailyPrompt-1902 #Books #Poetry #MaryOliver #Reading #DogSongs #RainbowRowell When I was young, I frequently re-read books like Old Yeller and Little…

Afternoon light illuminates an orange tulip…in the sun’s warmth, the wonderful scent of this tulip, reminiscent of orange blossom, fills the air.

I am so grateful for my 🌿 garden 🌱and for the garden community…creating beauty and wonder…and hearts that are not small and mean.

#DefendDemocracy #gardens #gardeners #FlowerPower #MaryOliver #FlowerPhotography #reseliance #rebellion

Today I’m flying low and I’m not saying a word I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. The world goes on as it must, the bees in the garden rumbling a little, the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. And so forth. But I’m taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. I hardly move though really I’m traveling a terrific distance. Stillness. One of the doors into the temple.

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#BlueskyPoetry
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Today by Mary Oliver

…Es el verdadero poema. #MaryOliver

Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006

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Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006

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"and you too have come / into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled / with light, and to shine"

Mary Oliver, Thirst, 2006

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Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to see who can sing the highest note, or the lowest, or the most expressive of mirth, or the most tender? Their strong, blunt beaks drink the air as they strive melodiously not for your sake and not for mine and not for the sake of winning but for sheer delight and gratitude – believe us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. I beg of you, do not walk by without pausing to attend to this rather ridiculous performance. It could mean something. It could mean everything. It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote: You must change your life.

Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to see who can sing the highest note, or the lowest, or the most expressive of mirth, or the most tender? Their strong, blunt beaks drink the air as they strive melodiously not for your sake and not for mine and not for the sake of winning but for sheer delight and gratitude – believe us, they say, it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world. I beg of you, do not walk by without pausing to attend to this rather ridiculous performance. It could mean something. It could mean everything. It could be what Rilke meant, when he wrote: You must change your life.

Today’s poem for #NationalPoetryMonth
#Invitation by #MaryOliver (a swing at smaller nature’s awe. So looking forward to the new PBS documentary this summer) #NaPoMo #poetry 🐤 🪶

“it is a serious thing

just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in the broken world.”  

😍 🐸

*not my content*

#poetry #MaryOliver #poetrymonth

#nationalpoetrymonth
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#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: The Name of the Rose, by #UmbertoEco
#Amreading: A Grave Undertaking, by #LionelWhite
#Amlistening to: Time Rider, by #TomDelonge and #AJHartley
#TBR Reading next: Thirst, by #MaryOliver

Hello poets & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
— For this week's #LiftToTheSky

Blue Horses by #MaryOliver

What a delight to imagine, stepping into a painting, and then stepping into a painting with Mary Oliver

#Poetry #ElphrasticPoetry

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Omg my #Finch discovered Mary Oliver today!!!! 😍

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A poignant reminder from Mary Oliver from her poem “Loneliness” (2014)

Oh, mother earth,
your comfort is great, your arms never withhold.
It has saved my life to know this.

Photo: Wes Heitzman

#art #poetry #maryoliver #communityart #nature

#LIVINGfully #LIVINGwell #DifficultTimes #Dreams #Imagination #Nature #Family #Friends #ONElife #writers #poets #THINKERS #creatives ... what will you do with your ONE WILD and PRECIOUS LIFE?

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I Ask Percy How I Should Live My Life

Love, love, love, says Percy.
And hurry as fast as you can
along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust.
Then, go to sleep.
Give up your body heat, your beating heart.
Then, trust.

- Mary Oliver

Beauford Delaney, Paris Street, 1966

#maryoliver #dog

For World Poetry Day

"I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.
I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be
improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as
though I had wings."

Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver

#worldpoetryday
#maryoliver

my life is
with its poems
and its music
and its glass cities,

it is also this dazzling darkness
coming
down the mountain,
breathing and tasting;

all day I think of her —
her white teeth,
her wordlessness,
her perfect love.

~Mary Oliver, “Spring”
#poetry #spring #maryoliver

Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly oils, say, on a morning in early summer, at its perfect imperial distance– and have you ever felt for anything such wild love– do you think there is anywhere, in any language, a word billowing enough for the pleasure that fills you, as the sun reaches out, as it warms you as you stand there, empty-handed– or have you too turned from this world– or have you too gone crazy for power, for things?

#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#MaryOliver

The Sun by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver continues to inspire posthumously.

Sunday Services at 10:00AM
In person: 6300 A Street, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Lil baby blue succubus those are called frenimies! Let them go and never mind what they do cause as much as they love to see you fall remember they are watching and it will destroy them to watch you rise with grace and fly above and beyond their plateau.
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The emotional clarity that defines the poetry of Mary Oliver is the result of a careful interplay between language, observation, and reflection.
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A chance conversation waiting for coffee and a 500 word short story in which somehow the actor Sam Neill appears as a character and on my zip-up hoodie

Some Lovely Things: seeing Zoe while waiting for coffee and hearing about her gran - and having Sam Neill unexpectedly arrive in my 500 word short story this week.
#writing #MaryOliver #RoaldDahl #Matilda #LovelyThings
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I love #MaryOliver 's poetry!

Today's Lines at Lunchtime is 'Sleeping In The Forest' By Mary Oliver

#poems #LinesAtLunchtime #library #librarian #literature #SpokenWord #SlamPoetry #poet #MaryOliver

Mary Oliver’s portrayal of the wilderness as teacher emphasizes observation, resilience, spiritual awareness, and ethical reflection.
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#Poetry #MaryOliver