today I feel like music

today I want to sing

whistle

and sing

 

 

 

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The dream of my life

is to lie down by a slow river

And stare at the light in the trees –

To learn something by being nothing

A little while…

 

— Mary Oliver, from Entering the Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How to Do Absolutely Nothing

 

Rent a house near the beach, or a cabin

but: Do not take your walking shoes.

Don’t take any clothes you’d wear

anyplace anyone would see you.

Don’t take your rechargeables.

Take Scrabble if you have to,

but not a dictionary and no

pencils for keeping score.

Don’t take a cookbook

or anything to cook.

A fishing pole, ok

but not the line,

hook, sinker,

leave it all.

Find out

what’s

left.

 

— Barbara Kingsolver, From How to Fly – In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons

 

 

 

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there is a certain feeling

that you can have

when you relax

into your hammock

on a perfectly hot day

 

what’s the word for it?

 

ah, yes!

 

HEAVENLY

 

 

 

 

 

 

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let’s do some more poetry

 

mangle the words

playfully

throw the rules out

out of the window

also the grammar

 

And put the rhyme

thru the slammer

 

let us have . . . poetry

 

 

 

 

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