Saturday, December 24, 2011

Peaceful thoughts



The Peace of Wild Things



When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.



Wendell Berry




2 comments:

Helen said...

Hi cedar thank you for your peaceful poem
Happy New year and may it be filled full of creativity and fun!

Anonymous said...

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