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Comment 4 of 4, added on April 17th, 2007 at 12:07 AM.
This was my introduction to Mary's poems, and I've since collected all of her books. Some poems, as this one, continue to conjure up beautiful pictures in my mind with each reading... of what is "real" and what is deeply mysterious. I love "Pink Moon, the Pond", as it also leaps back and forth between conscious awareness to dream.
Joyce Bonner from United States
Comment 3 of 4, added on October 4th, 2005 at 11:23 AM.
This poem is excellent. It is a very Romantic poem. With certain elements of Transcendentalism in it. It's great!
Shireen Mayjar from New Zealand
Comment 2 of 4, added on September 26th, 2005 at 12:25 PM.
After reading Mary Oliver's poems, I pay attention to those moments spend in the nature.
I love the poem Sleeping in the forest...
The Blue Dragonfly
I thought this place on earth;
This lake might have remembered me
I Sat on the edge of the bank immobile.
Like the stone laying beside me
Between me and the vast blue sky;
Few clouds are keeping me company
The winds faithful as always whispering in my ears
A swirl in the meadow like a mini tornado;
Nothing else but my thoughts drifting away;
Tall dark green pine trees surrounded me.
I could hear all that nature has to offer
The merry-go-round of Birds catching flies
As did a fish creating ripples in the water;
The blue dragonfly spinning in the air
Dancing with a partner;
A perfect love affair.
A deer resting in the shadow that you could barely see
Only visible where his pointing ears scrutinizing all around him
Or chasing mosquitoes may be.
By Sundown I could not tally the many times
That I enter the twilight zone
a space between daydream and the reality
Some alternate state that I did carry into the night
To be now transform into a night dream.
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Patrick Albouy Organowsky © 2004
Patrick Albouy
Comment 1 of 4, added on February 4th, 2005 at 4:30 PM.
Rereading this poem can never recreate the experience I had with the first reading -- the entering into the ground, the stars, the leaves, then the surprise of what that does to you -- changing you with each shift of attention. Beautiful!
Gloria SpurgeonSmith from United States
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This was my introduction to Mary's poems, and I've since collected all of her books. Some poems, as this one, continue to conjure up beautiful pictures in my mind with each reading... of what is "real" and what is deeply mysterious. I love "Pink Moon, the Pond", as it also leaps back and forth between conscious awareness to dream.
Joyce Bonner from United States