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Reflections and Revelations Along The Way
About Me
- Patricia
- Welcome to my travel blog! I look forward to sharing my adventures with you as I travel around the western USA in my T@B.
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Sleeping In The Forest
by Mary Oliver
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.
I love the poem, "Sleeping In the Forest". What a wonderful way to start the journey.
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