the uses of sorrow -- mary oliver
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mercifulserpent"The Uses of Sorrow"
Mary Oliver
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
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Date: 2010-12-16 08:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-18 07:30 am (UTC)(I am also adding you as a friend, in part because I quite love the poems that you post, and also because your banner involves Disney princesses, and I am still, after all these years, quite obsessed with Disney circa 1989-1996 or so).
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Date: 2010-12-18 05:15 pm (UTC)