Friday, April 09, 2010

Poetry Friday: Wendell Berry


A lovely, perfect, thoughtful poem for this spring morning:

The Thought of Something Else


by Wendell Berry


A spring wind blowing   
the smell of the ground
through the intersections of traffic,
the mind turns, seeks a new   
nativity—another place,   
simpler, less weighted   
by what has already been. 
 ...

(Read the entire poem here.) 

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The round up this week is at Paper Tigers.

2 comments:

Mary Lee said...

I'll try for "a simple wakefulness" today.

Marjorie said...

What a beautiful poem for moving into springtime - the last verse had my heart in my mouth. Thank you for highlighting it.