(Before It's News)
“Praying”
“It doesn’t have to be the blue iris,
it could be weeds in a vacant lot,
or a few small stones;
just pay attention,
then patch a few words together
and don’t try to make them elaborate,
this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks,
and a silence in which another voice may speak.”
- Mary Oliver, “Thirst”
Source:
http://coyoteprime-runningcauseicantfly.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-poet-mary-oliver-praying.html