Showing posts with label what I know. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what I know. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

What I know...

 ...from Mary Oliver's Poem
What Is There Beyond Knowing


What I know
I could put into a pack

as if it were bread and cheese, and carry it
on one shoulder,

important and honorable, but so small!
While everything else continues, unexplained

and unexplainable. How wonderful it is 
to follow a thought quietly

to its logical end.
I have done this a few times.

But mostly I just stand in the dark field,
in the middle of the world, breathing

in and out. Life so far doesn't have any other name
but breath and light, wind and rain.

If there's a temple, I haven't found it yet.
I simply go on drifting, in the heaven of grass
     and weeds.