Topic title should read 'An uplifting poem', but I thought that might be a turn-off! (Sorry).

Too much bad news at the moment, too much negativity.

I really wanted to share one of my favourite poems with the Forum. It's an absolute affirmation of the joy a day can bring.. with a little twist.

I hope you like it:

The Sun
Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love--
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed--
or have you too
turned from this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

Mary Oliver

Tee hee :hihi:

Now you've explained that you were a bit worse for wear when you posted this I decided to put it to the top as a lesson - don't post on the SF when you are too drunk to know what you're doing :heyhey:

Only joking hun, it's a lovely poem :thumbsup:

Hi Deavon,

I like it!

As was mentioned elsewhere on the Forum there's the Serenity Prayer, the Desiderata and one of my own personal favourites, that was originally attributed to Goethe but is actually from William Hutchinson Murray :

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”

I like this - just wish I could apply it sometimes!


Joe

Originally posted by Hels
Tee hee :hihi:

Now you've explained that you were a bit worse for wear when you posted this I decided to put it to the top as a lesson - don't post on the SF when you are too drunk to know what you're doing :heyhey:

Only joking hun, it's a lovely poem :thumbsup:

Sometimes my problem is finding a sober moment ;)

Glad you liked it.

Joe, I really like the message there; get up an go out and do it!

(will keep this in mind as I've got work shortly and need a motivational push!)

Was that the Desiderata, Joe?

Whatever it was, I'd say it has a very different theme or nature to the poem Deavon posted.

One is about action, going out and making it happen.

The other about stillness, appreciating what you have (even if that's just your experience of the sunshine).

It all makes me wonder, what the best way to live life is ...

Through action (go out and get it), or through stillness (let it come to me) ...