Beautiful poem by Mary Oliver. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and one of my favorite poets.
Her poetry about the natural world is both inspiring and thought provoking.
The Sun
Have you ever seen
anything
in your like
more wonderful
then the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon
and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone—
and how it slides again
our of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower
streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance—
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love—
do you think there is anywhere, in any language, a word billowing enough for the pleasure
that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you
as you stand there,
empty-handed—
or have you too
turned from this world—
or have you too
gone crazy
for power
for things?
