A Gathering of Poetry

I’m joining with Bonny and friends today to share a poem that I found quite by accident but that is incredibly appropriate given that I am turning 60 on Sunday.

Halleluiah by Mary Oliver

Everyone should be born into this world happy
and loving everything.
But in truth it rarely works that way.
For myself, I have spent my life clamoring toward it.
Halleluiah, anyway I’m not where I started!

And have you too been trudging like that, sometimes
almost forgetting how wondrous the world is
and how miraculously kind some people can be?
And have you too decided that probably nothing important
is ever easy?

Not, say, for the first sixty years.

Halleluiah, I’m sixty now, and even a little more,
and some days I feel I have wings.

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Comments (14)

  2. Brilliant, Carole! And Happy early Birthday!! I will echo that hallelujah! May this be the best year ever! XO

  4. This is just perfect, Carole! I have been trudging and forgetting recently and I welcome the different perspective. I wish you a very Happy Birthday and I wish you wings.

  9. What a perfect find for the perfect time! Happiest of birthdays to you, Carole, and many more happy ones!

  11. Happy birthday, Carole! I know you’ll bring your gift for having fun to this wonderful event! All good wishes. ?

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