poetry magic on the first day of fall

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Unclasp your hands

Nobody is coming to save you

And that is how it should be

Your whole life has been about finding

That you’re meant to save yourself

Everything is just an avenue

To show you your own power

- Brianna Weist

take heart

MORGAN HARPER NICHOLS

wild geese

"Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, 

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting  

over and over announcing your place 

in the family of things."

 

from Dream Work by Mary Oliver 

published by Atlantic Monthly Press

© Mary Oliver

 

hope

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stops at all..."

- Emily Dickinson

spellbound

"The night is darkening round me,

The wild winds coldly blow

But a tyrant spell has bound me,

And I cannot, cannot go."

- Emily Bronte

illustration - Ted Lewin