Name: Why I Wake Early
ISBN: 9780807068793

Mary Oliver

"Mary Oliver continues to tutor us in attention, gratitude, and reverence in this new collection of 47 poems."--Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat, authors of "Spirituality Legacy."

New Poems

Why I Wake Early

Fiona

Every day I’m still looking for God,
and I’m still finding him everywhere
tucked safely in the spaces between the musings of the beautiful Mary Oliver

kaitlan

How many, how many, how many
make up a world!
And then I think of that old idea: the singular
 and the eternal. 
One cup, in which everything is swirled
back to the color of the sea and the sky. 
Imagine it!

Paula Reed

"Every day  
 I see or I hear     
 something        
 that more or less 

 kills me   
 with delight,      
 that leaves me
 like a needle 
 in the haystack   
 of light."

Eliza Gonzalez

Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,
but looking, and touching, and loving,


Mary Oliver's poetry is so healing, like a gentle hug for the soul. Her obvious love of the world and the creatures in it make me want to stand outside and just breathe everything in. I don't do that enough, I think, but she makes me want to do it every day. How wonderful an artist, to be able to share her tenderness like that.

B. K.

There's such a feeling of contentment and peace in these poems. My favorites were "Snow Geese" and "Luna."

Why I Wake Early New Poems