Poetry is solace

This day reminds me of this famous Van Gogh quote.

"And then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that's not enough, what is enough?" - Vincent van Gogh."

I'm in the constant company of these two beautiful souls in these winter hours : Mary  Oliver and Lang Leav. 

I'll call it a day with this soulful Oliver's poem.

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I wanted

The past to go away, I wanted

To leave it, like another country; I wanted

My life to close, and open

Like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song

Where it falls

Down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery;

I wanted

To hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,

Whoever I was, I was

Alive

For a little while. 

 --------- From Mary Oliver's Dream work.