PRAYING It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be we… - Mary Oliver

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PRAYING It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.

Mary Oliver

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Mary Jane Oliver (10 September 1935 – 17 January 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

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Every adjective and adverb is worth five cents. Every verb is worth fifty cents

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

When I have to die, I would like to die
on a day of rain -
long rain, slow rain, the kind you think will never end.

PRAYING It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words tog… - Mary Oliver

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