.jpg)
April is poetry month and April 22 is Earth Day. What could be a finer conjunction of events! I'm lucky to be joining two wonderful poets - Emily McGiffen and Melissa Sawatsky - at the Smithers Library beginning at 7 pm. We invite you to join us to celebrate the energy that drives us to speak out, sing out, shout out against the activities that threaten the earth while remembering to take the time to stop and go to the places that are the very source of that energy. To, as Wendell Berry suggests, "rest in the grace of the world."
Here's his poem.
The Peace of Wild Things
When
despair for the world 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 with their light. For a time
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 with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
No comments:
Post a Comment