Showing posts with label favorite poets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label favorite poets. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Other people's poetry

Mary Oliver 
her poetry is a gift
here is one of them




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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.