"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought of the unthinking." ~~ John Maynard Keynes

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Not only words to weave.....words to live by.....

By Li-Young Lee 
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy
at the bend in the road where we turned toward   
signs painted Peaches.

From laden boughs, from hands,
from sweet fellowship in the bins,
comes nectar at the roadside, succulent
peaches we devour, dusty skin and all,
comes the familiar dust of summer, dust we eat.

O, to take what we love inside,
to carry within us an orchard, to eat
not only the skin, but the shade,
not only the sugar, but the days, to hold
the fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite into   
the round jubilance of peach.

There are days we live
as if death were nowhere
in the background; from joy
to joy to joy, from wing to wing,
from blossom to blossom to
impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

Li-Young Lee, “From Blossoms” from Rose. Copyright © 1986 by Li-Young Lee.
From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee : The Poetry Foundation

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Up Close and Personal.....in my Garden

This time of year is so busy, I  am unable to put words to paper, but spending time in my garden with my phone fills the void.  

 












Things are really looking up.....or at least if I am not looking down, I seem to be looking up!