Why this Mary Oliver poem is so good...
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It's Mary Oliver's birthday. She is very important to me as a source of inspiration and spiritual guidance. I'm always surprised when people have never heard of her, and especially the poem Wild Geese, one of the most famous poems in the English language.
I won't print it here, it's easy enough to find, but I will share this link to a fantastic 40 minutes of Mary reading her own poetry: • Mary Oliver reads from...
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I love this video very much.
Your soft, gentle, calm voice. Your equally gentle demeanor. Your insightful analysis of the poem.
You've embodied, for me, how I imagine Mary Oliver's poem to be if it were sitting in a room chatting with me.
Wow. Thank you.
Beautifully read and softly explained. Thank you.
Thank you ❤ for a proper introduction to the poet, Mary Oliver. 🌧️🌻
'We belong" - I could never capture what is was that I loved about this poem besides the obvious. And it's this....♥
Thank you. Yes, we belong Everything is connected to everything else. This deep knowing is beyond the opposits of the Mind. It is all one organism.
Loved her poems, recently did a video with wild geese which inspired me the most, love this :)
For me this poem has changed as i have changed. When i was young "you do not have to be good" meant literally that, you dont have to be good. But as I've gotten older I've began to understand that its a choice we make to be good.
I love this interpretation. Thank you.
If it is being true to yourself. Carl Jung cleared some things up for me.
Mary Oliver's poem Wild geese pretty much makes me take an inventory of my entire life the good the bad and i appreciate all of it. The poem is freeing and no matter what is going on i feel like it's going to be okay.
Thank you for honoring Mary Oliver on her birthday Jonathan. I remember you reciting this as you were finishing up the last set in Lake Charles for my birthday show in 2020, simply an awe inspiring poem.
Thank you for this gem of a video.
Thank you for your commentary. Deeply insightful and enriching. Ans my favourite reading of it. Your voice tones and textures captures it perfectly. Bless you.
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for the wonderful reading of that great poem!
You’re welcome.
Wonderful how you explain this poem and give it an even deeper value. Thank you and greetings from Holland
I miss Holland. Thank you Peace
Wonderful understanding and I thank You 💖🙏🏼
Thanks so much for this...one of my favourite poems but the way you read it and the way you then explained it was marvelous. It so resonated with me.
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Just subscribed! I'd love you to further explain what you were saying about the rain/pebbles being very true to mystical poetry?
"The clear pebbles of the rain" doesn't make any direct sense, and the metaphor allows you to think beyond direct meaning. That is a mystical technique. Like putting half the water in the sky at the beginning of Genesis. It allows you to think with your feelings instead of your mind.
An ancient city well versed in the art of war , that's the motto of the city the wild geese signed a treaty .
The same city I entered the world.
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Hello, thank you for this video 👍💯, i m new in international poetry, but this poem was nice to hear and your opinion on it. I would like to know your Favourite of Mary Oliver Peoms. Some recomandations? OR from Rumi too. I will read Robert Frost and Charles Bukowski too. So, if you have for me some other tips i would be happy to know it from you, i appriciate much your effort in this authentic Video 🍀
Her book Felicity is as good as it gets. However, you can always trust Mary Oliver. I think of her as our Rumi, and her beloved was Earth.
0:03 nah she dead bro