Song of the Builders

[loveandpower]

Song of the Builders

On a summer morning

I sat down

on a hillside

to think about God -

a worthy pastime.

Near me, I saw

a single cricket;

it was moving the grains of the hillside

this way and that way.

How great was its energy,

how humble its effort.

Let us hope

it will always be like this,

each of us going on

in our inexplicable ways

building the universe.

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Comments

[chemalfait]

a worthy pasttime indeed!
sometimes I think I think about god too much, I think lol

[michaelsylvan]

Thanks for posting - I'm such a big Mary Oliver fan (taught her poetry for years). She's not fancy or difficult to read, but that simple focus doesn't mean she's not packing a lot into carefully constructed lines. When reading her, it can almost seem like one is on the walk with her....