A review by katrinky
The Art of Blessing the Day by Marge Piercy
5.0
might as well mark this as read, even though I'll never be finished with it. I love this book and these poems so, so deeply. full of earth, and spirit, and devotion.
"attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
what we want to change we choose and then
pick up a tool. bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. if you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new"
-- from 'the art of blessing the day'
"The New Year is a great door
that stands across the evening and Yom
Kippur is the second door. between them
are song and silence, stone and clay pot
to be filled from within myself.
I will find there both ripeness and rot,
what I have done and undone,
what I must let go with the waning days
and what I must take in. with the last
of the tomatoes, we harvest the fruit of our lives."
-- from 'coming up on September'
"attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
what we want to change we choose and then
pick up a tool. bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. if you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new"
-- from 'the art of blessing the day'
"The New Year is a great door
that stands across the evening and Yom
Kippur is the second door. between them
are song and silence, stone and clay pot
to be filled from within myself.
I will find there both ripeness and rot,
what I have done and undone,
what I must let go with the waning days
and what I must take in. with the last
of the tomatoes, we harvest the fruit of our lives."
-- from 'coming up on September'