Reviews for Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime

The average rating for Ten Poems to Last a Lifetime based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-01-28 00:00:00 Roger Schweizer Several classics -- enjoyable reads, including, of course, Mary Oliver: When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Hersperides is the legendary garden in the Far West of the world where golden apples grow Return to the ecstatic rapture, knowing you are part of a greater life, a conscious flicker in the vast network of intelligence that joins both the stars and the ants and you. Mary Oliver - Wild Geese: Whoever you are, no mater how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things The Art of Disappearing by Naomi Shihab Nye When they say Don't I know you? say no. When they invite you to the party remember what parties are like before answering. Someone is telling you in a loud voice they once wrote a poem. Greasy sausage balls on a paper plate. Then reply. If they say We should get together say why? It's not that you don't love them anymore. You're trying to remember something too important to forget. Trees. The monastery bell at twilight. Tell them you have a new project. It will never be finished. When someone recognizes you in a grocery store nod briefly and become a cabbage. When someone you haven't seen in ten years appears at the door, don't start singing him all your new songs. You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your time. Naomi Shihab Nye, from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems (Far Corner Books, 1995)

Review # 2 was written on 2014-08-27 00:00:00 Thomas Hakun When I read poetry I always wish I could discuss the stuff that has gripped me. Also sometimes some of the bones of the work can be missed and with this little book the author gives me a take on it. My appreciation of poetry has only expanded being in this authors virtual class on these poems. I leave you with a Mary Oliver line " tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" A great question for my kids every day emphasizing ONE .