Monday, October 15, 2012

The Morning Reading: "There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess."





Gift
-Czeslaw Milosz

A day so happy.
Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden.
Hummingbirds were stopping over the honeysuckle flowers.
There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess.
I knew no one worth my envying him.
Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot.
To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me.
In my body I felt no pain.
When straightening up, I saw blue sea and sails.

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2 comments:

Dean Keller said...


lovely!

reading, it always puts me there with him.

Thanks

Anonymous said...

Wonderful.

Thank you, Lisa.

the other L

 
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