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mercifulserpent ([personal profile] mercifulserpent) wrote2010-12-16 03:08 pm
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the uses of sorrow -- mary oliver

"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.

[identity profile] synapsepi.livejournal.com 2010-12-16 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
this really touched me.

[identity profile] jamzsquared.livejournal.com 2010-12-18 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
A beautiful poem.

(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).

[identity profile] polymexina.livejournal.com 2010-12-18 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
<3