Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Wendell Berry: The Peace of Wild Things

The wisdom and beauty of this poem is something 
that I return to again and again.❤ Molly

 
 The Peace of Wild Things
 
When despair grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting for their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Wendell Berry
 

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