Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Mary Oliver––"Devotions"––poem by Dorothy
Mary Oliver––"Devotions"
She came among us
like a wild creature
fresh from the forest,
wearing a tunic of green,
tiara of flowers in her hair.
Orpheus returned,
she sang to us of mysteries
long lost,
secrets of the animals
and trees,
how these were
our ancestors,
beloved precursors
of our souls.
Bears, rabbits, garden snakes,
small bodies of water,
even spiders––
all received her blessing,
all part of the oneness that is.
We listened in awe
to her sacred melodies,
in trance and yearning
for what we had forgotten,
our lost songs of spirit,
ceremonies of connection,
the place where we began.
Dorothy Walters
March 14, 2014
Mary Oliver has a new book called "Devotions: Selected Poems of Mary Oliver." I, like so many, adore her work and am discovering many (to me) new poems in this volume. All Oliver lovers should indeed get this latest collection.
I even wrote a second poem devoted to her and I will post it tomorrow.
