Poetry Friday: A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

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The sea can do craziness, it can do smooth,
it can lie down like silk breathing
or toss havoc shoreward; it can give

gifts and withhold all; it can rise, ebb, froth
like an incoming frenzy of fountains, or it can
sweet-talk entirely. As I can too,

and so, no doubt, can you, and you.

- A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

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Thanks for this. It's a wonderful thing that so many are sharing favorite words from Mary Oliver.

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Lovely tributes.

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I am enjoying all the tributes to Mary Oliver. This one is lovely.

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I like the range of this one.