Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness - an empathy - was necessary if the #attention was to matter.
- #MaryOliver
- #MaryOliver
February 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Attention without feeling, I began to learn, is only a report. An openness - an empathy - was necessary if the #attention was to matter.
- #MaryOliver
- #MaryOliver
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (2006)
#photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (2006)
#photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross
January 30, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The light flows from their branches.
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (2006)
#photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross
And they call again, “It’s simple,” they say,
“and you too have come
into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled
with light, and to shine.”
Mary Oliver (2006)
#photography #PatelyBridge #PotD #trees #sunlight #shadow #light #poetry #MaryOliver #cross
Mary Oliver’s poems approximately the moon are extra than lyrical reflections; they’re invites to look at the world, honor our emotions, and locate connection amid the vastness of nature.
#MaryOliver #poem #nevermorepoem #wolink
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#MaryOliver #poem #nevermorepoem #wolink
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What Is The Meaning Behind Mary Oliver's Twelve Moons? - Nevermorepoem.com
Mary Oliver’s moon-themed poetry has captivated readers for decades, mixing the thriller and splendor of the herbal international with profound insights
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January 29, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Mary Oliver’s poems approximately the moon are extra than lyrical reflections; they’re invites to look at the world, honor our emotions, and locate connection amid the vastness of nature.
#MaryOliver #poem #nevermorepoem #wolink
www.nevermorepoem.com/archives/24973
#MaryOliver #poem #nevermorepoem #wolink
www.nevermorepoem.com/archives/24973
January 28, 2026 at 10:21 PM
#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: Owls and Other Fantasies, by #MaryOliver
#Amreading: Kappa, by #RyūnosukeAkutagawa
#Amlistening to: Perelandra, by #CSLewis
#TBR Reading next: Guilt, by #KeigoHigashino
Last #book I finished: Owls and Other Fantasies, by #MaryOliver
#Amreading: Kappa, by #RyūnosukeAkutagawa
#Amlistening to: Perelandra, by #CSLewis
#TBR Reading next: Guilt, by #KeigoHigashino
January 28, 2026 at 1:13 PM
#WWWWednesday
Last #book I finished: Owls and Other Fantasies, by #MaryOliver
#Amreading: Kappa, by #RyūnosukeAkutagawa
#Amlistening to: Perelandra, by #CSLewis
#TBR Reading next: Guilt, by #KeigoHigashino
Last #book I finished: Owls and Other Fantasies, by #MaryOliver
#Amreading: Kappa, by #RyūnosukeAkutagawa
#Amlistening to: Perelandra, by #CSLewis
#TBR Reading next: Guilt, by #KeigoHigashino
January 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
January 21, 2026 at 3:02 PM
“The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #poems #MaryOliver #sorrow #sadness #darkness #pain #suffering #hurt #loss #grief #depression
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #poems #MaryOliver #sorrow #sadness #darkness #pain #suffering #hurt #loss #grief #depression
January 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“The Uses Of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #poems #MaryOliver #sorrow #sadness #darkness #pain #suffering #hurt #loss #grief #depression
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.”
~ Mary Oliver
#poetry #poems #MaryOliver #sorrow #sadness #darkness #pain #suffering #hurt #loss #grief #depression
January 19, 2026 at 1:21 PM
FOX
by #MaryOliver
You don't ever know where
a sentence will take you, depending
on its roll and fold. I was walking
over the dunes when I saw
the red fox asleep under the green
branches of the pine.
by #MaryOliver
You don't ever know where
a sentence will take you, depending
on its roll and fold. I was walking
over the dunes when I saw
the red fox asleep under the green
branches of the pine.
January 19, 2026 at 8:11 AM
FOX
by #MaryOliver
You don't ever know where
a sentence will take you, depending
on its roll and fold. I was walking
over the dunes when I saw
the red fox asleep under the green
branches of the pine.
by #MaryOliver
You don't ever know where
a sentence will take you, depending
on its roll and fold. I was walking
over the dunes when I saw
the red fox asleep under the green
branches of the pine.
January 18, 2026 at 4:06 PM
January 17, 2026 at 9:50 PM
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” - #MaryOliver (died: 17 January 2019)
January 17, 2026 at 6:05 PM
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” - #MaryOliver (died: 17 January 2019)
To live in this world
you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Mary Oliver
Stuart Walker • K, 1932
Watercolor on paper
6.75 x 11.75 ins
#art #maryoliver
you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Mary Oliver
Stuart Walker • K, 1932
Watercolor on paper
6.75 x 11.75 ins
#art #maryoliver
January 17, 2026 at 12:53 PM
To live in this world
you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Mary Oliver
Stuart Walker • K, 1932
Watercolor on paper
6.75 x 11.75 ins
#art #maryoliver
you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it
against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Mary Oliver
Stuart Walker • K, 1932
Watercolor on paper
6.75 x 11.75 ins
#art #maryoliver
This Mary Oliver poem 'Sleeping In The Forest' just inspires me SO much. I want to paint it somehow. #maryoliver #poetry #ithoughttheearthrememberedme #sleepingintheforest
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 PM
This Mary Oliver poem 'Sleeping In The Forest' just inspires me SO much. I want to paint it somehow. #maryoliver #poetry #ithoughttheearthrememberedme #sleepingintheforest
New poem: “Yard geese”
— Heather Brooke Drummond
January 16, 2026
— A reflection of the poem,
“Wild Geese”
By Mary Oliver
My goal with “Yard Geese” is to show us the world which “Wild Geese” liberates us from so we can fly free.
#geese #wild #reflection #originalpoetry #maryoliver
— Heather Brooke Drummond
January 16, 2026
— A reflection of the poem,
“Wild Geese”
By Mary Oliver
My goal with “Yard Geese” is to show us the world which “Wild Geese” liberates us from so we can fly free.
#geese #wild #reflection #originalpoetry #maryoliver
January 17, 2026 at 6:05 AM
New poem: “Yard geese”
— Heather Brooke Drummond
January 16, 2026
— A reflection of the poem,
“Wild Geese”
By Mary Oliver
My goal with “Yard Geese” is to show us the world which “Wild Geese” liberates us from so we can fly free.
#geese #wild #reflection #originalpoetry #maryoliver
— Heather Brooke Drummond
January 16, 2026
— A reflection of the poem,
“Wild Geese”
By Mary Oliver
My goal with “Yard Geese” is to show us the world which “Wild Geese” liberates us from so we can fly free.
#geese #wild #reflection #originalpoetry #maryoliver
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible
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#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
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#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Knowing and not knowing at conferences through the lens of Mary Oliver’s poetry, where metrics meet wonder, connection, and the intangible
www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...
#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
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#eventprofs #metrics #wonder #knowing #MaryOliver #EventDesign #poetry #owl
Digging deep...
Vocabulary January With Poetry Day 14!
Such an interesting word, and a phenomenal definition to match <<
Ululate: to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
(Or Joy!)
#poetrysky #writesky #poet #poem #naturepoem #maryoliver #english #metaphor
Vocabulary January With Poetry Day 14!
Such an interesting word, and a phenomenal definition to match <<
Ululate: to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
(Or Joy!)
#poetrysky #writesky #poet #poem #naturepoem #maryoliver #english #metaphor
January 15, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Digging deep...
Vocabulary January With Poetry Day 14!
Such an interesting word, and a phenomenal definition to match <<
Ululate: to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
(Or Joy!)
#poetrysky #writesky #poet #poem #naturepoem #maryoliver #english #metaphor
Vocabulary January With Poetry Day 14!
Such an interesting word, and a phenomenal definition to match <<
Ululate: to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
(Or Joy!)
#poetrysky #writesky #poet #poem #naturepoem #maryoliver #english #metaphor
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
January 14, 2026 at 2:17 PM
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it
go,
to let it go.
Mary Oliver
#letitgo #nonattachment #poetry #maryoliver
January 13, 2026 at 10:56 AM
"Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called senseless acts has its thread looping back through the world and into a human heart." ~ Mary Oliver #sunrise #Colorado #quotes #MaryOliver
January 11, 2026 at 6:44 PM
"Everyone knows the great energies running amok cast terrible shadows, that each of the so-called senseless acts has its thread looping back through the world and into a human heart." ~ Mary Oliver #sunrise #Colorado #quotes #MaryOliver
I know all of my feelings can be true at once. Trying to just let myself be a person today.
#poetry #poem #MaryOliver #anxiety #depression #gratitude #joy
#poetry #poem #MaryOliver #anxiety #depression #gratitude #joy
January 11, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I know all of my feelings can be true at once. Trying to just let myself be a person today.
#poetry #poem #MaryOliver #anxiety #depression #gratitude #joy
#poetry #poem #MaryOliver #anxiety #depression #gratitude #joy
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM