Tag: Mary Oliver
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March 1, 2019
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
I never needed a reason to love the world, I simply just always have. With its faults and near-misses, its greed and its hope. I love the way it is patched together like a great quilt of countries and languages, mountains and deserts. Most of all, I love, and am humbled by the fact that somehow I participate in that great,
November 25, 2015
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
Mary Oliver is a poet who often writes of attention to the natural world. Through a keen sense of awareness, one is better able to understand both themselves and the larger world. Oliver offers scenes from the natural world as a path towards our own internal growth. Oliver captures the essence of a moment with expressive, careful clarity. Nature is most often her subject and she beckons to the reader’s emotions which rise and fall with the action on the page.