Poetry Friday: Jane Hirshfield's "I Would Like"

I just discovered Gwarlingo. Do you know it? (How did I not know it?) I was hunting down Jane Hirshfield poems and came across "I Would Like," which I had not read before. 

I would like to share it with you (because it's exquisite.) 

I would you to check out Gwarlingo. 

I would like you to know 

that Gwarlingo

offers "The Sunday Poem" every week, 

along with commentary, 

and 

a writing prompt. 

I would like 

you to know that 

Gwarlingo is, as the site tells us: 

"a Welsh word for the rushing sound 

a grandfather clock makes before it chimes. 

Gwarlingo is all about resonance."

I would like you to know that this word 

makes me ridiculously happy. 

I would like you 

to read this poem, 

and I would like to 

thank Jane Hirshfield for 

walking the planet, 

inhabiting the world, 

and adding to my life. 

Thank you, Jane. 

I would like 

to say thank you. 

I Would Like 

by Jane Hirshfield 

I would like

my living to inhabit me

the way

rain, sun, and their wanting

inhabit a fig or apple.

I would like to meet it

also in pieces,

scattered:

(Read the whole poem here, at Gwarlingo.) 

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Join the inimitable Irene Latham for the round-up this week. Irene just announced that she's creating a new class and it sounds marvelous. From her website: 

So, I have a secret I'm ready to share: I'm in the process of creating a digital course called Wild & Precious Writer. (Mary Oliver fans will know exactly where this title comes from!) 

My goal is to provide for others (you!) a path to higher joy and authenticity in your writing to create real change in your life and in the world. I'll be sharing things that have worked for me on my journey—ideas and practices that I've collected over the past twenty years from sources like The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop by Felicia Rose Chavez, and many others. 

With that in mind, I want to invite you along to help me create the course you would want. You can help me right away by answering the following question in [Irene's] comments:

If you could wave a magic wand to make your biggest writing challenge disappear, what would that be?

A simple and complicated question. 

May you have a marvelous Poetry Friday, and may all the things you would like come your way today.