Persimmon
My quick collages are what you might call collage "sketches", usually made in a short amount of time from things I find laying around in my scrap piles. I find them to be fun as well as a great 'loosening up' exercise.
Mindful
Every
day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills
me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in
the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen,
of light.
It was what I was born for -
to look, to listen,
to
lose myself
inside this soft world -
to instruct myself
over and over
inside this soft world -
to instruct myself
over and over
in
joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the
fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant -
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the very extravagant -
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the
daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but
grow wise
with such teachings
as these -
the untrimmable light
with such teachings
as these -
the untrimmable light
of
the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?
~ Mary Oliver ~
