Patience by Mary Oliver - Poem for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C

The Englewood Review of Books curates a weekly series of classic and contemporary poems that resonate with the themes of the lectionary readings. Here is one of the poems for this coming Sunday (More poems for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C can be found here)


Patience

Mary Oliver

SNIPPET:

 What is the good life now? Why,

look here, consider

the moon’s white crescent

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Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Her work is inspired by nature, rather than the human world, stemming from her lifelong passion for solitary walks in the wild. It is characterized by a sincere wonderment at the impact of natural imagery, conveyed in unadorned language. (via Wikipedia)

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