tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88606433026543696282011-10-01T13:24:01.768-07:00rikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07842908759093111982noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8860643302654369628.post-22603092720060923672010-02-13T18:52:00.000-08:002010-02-18T09:11:48.595-08:00<span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"> You do not have to be good.<br /><br />You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.<br /><br />You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.<br /><br />Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.<br /><br />Meanwhile the world goes on.<br /><br />Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.<br /><br />Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.<br /><br />Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,<br />the world offers itself to your imagination,<br />calls to you like the wild geese,<br />harsh and exciting -<br />over and over announcing your place<br />in the family of things. <br /><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">"Wild Geese" by</span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"> Mary Oliver</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:85%;">from Dream Work<br />published by Atlantic Monthly Press<br />© Mary Oliver</span><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;font-size:100%;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8860643302654369628-2260309272006092367?l=rikialexandersomatics.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>rikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07842908759093111982noreply@blogger.com