Sunday, February 10, 2008
Longing for the Sun
The Sunflowers
Come with me
into the field of sunflowers.
Their faces are burnished disks,
their dry spines
creak like ship masts,
their green leaves,
so heavy and many,
fill all day with the sticky
sugars of the sun.
Come with me
to visit the sunflowers,
they are shy
but want to be friends;
they have wonderful stories
of when they were young -
the important weather,
the wandering crows.
Don't be afraid
to ask them questions!
Their bright faces,
which follow the sun,
will listen, and all
those rows of seeds -
each one a new life!
hope for a deeper acquaintance;
each of them, though it stands
in a crowd of many,
like a separate universe,
is lonely, the long work
of turning their lives
into a celebration
is not easy. Come
and let us talk with those modest faces,
the simple garments of leaves,
the coarse roots in the earth
so uprightly burning.
Mary Oliver
This is for Wildflowers in Winter.
Ladybug you won the book and if you would send me your email I will mail it out.
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Beautiful. I love sunflowers. A memory of summer.
I love sunflowers.
People tell me they are weeds.
If that is true,
Then I love sunweeds.
I won? I won! I very rarely win!
I'm SO HAPPY!...I feel like one of your beautiful sunflowers! :)
YAY!!!!
sending you some sunshine, yolanda....77 beautiful degrees here in arizona today.
my husband is from oregon and his family is still there.....so we visit often....and trips to the coast are a requirement.....i'm a native arizonan, but my heart longs for a place by the ocean....
thanks for visiting....
I'm glad you shared sunflowers for Wildflowers in Winter. They are so beautiful. I love how they turn their head across the sky to follow the sun every day.
Lovely poem and lovely sunflowers. Mary Oliver does do justice to the sunflowers in her poem.
Beautiful field of sunflowers and a beautiful poem too.
So lovely.
I'm leaving on Monday for MD, so I will find your book when I get home--as it hasn't arrived yet. That will be nice to come home to!
That is beautiful and we all can use those beautiful flowers right about now with all the nasty weather we all have been getting.
Oh my goodness! I LOVE this photo!
What a beautiful poem. Sunflowers have always been my favorite! They are so perfectly formed and so sturdy in the ground making their presence known...absolutely love them.
I'm longing for the sun and flowers, too (windchill down to the single digits!)--warm days are coming!
Very nice photo, it looks Sunny.
Thank you for your visit.
Stunning sunflowers - such a crisp shot!
I love your sunflower photo! I'm also a big Mary Oliver fan.
Oh Yolanda! I love Mary Oliver ~ Beautiful poem. And that photo! What a sight for sore eyes. Gorgeous, vibrant and alive!
Wonderful post!
nice picture, and great poem.
what a beautiful bright poem for reading on a cold snowy day!!
Love it...
Oh yes, Summer... Spring... Sun... hurry along!! Blessings... Polly
What a beautiful photo and the poem is lovely too. Wildflowers in Winter has been such a fun blog carnival...
This is such a perfect picture to illustrate this lovely poem. Thanks so much for sharing both.
Hugs and blessings,
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