Poetry Sunday | What Gorgeous Thing.

from this morning's walk

What Gorgeous Thing

I do not know what gorgeous thing

the bluebird keeps saying,

his voice easing out of his throat,

beak, body into the pink air

of the early morning. I like it

whatever it is. Sometimes

it seems the only thing in the world

that is without dark thoughts.

Sometimes it seems the only thing

in the world that is without

questions that can't and probably 

never will be answered, the

only thing that is entirely content

with the pink, the clear white

morning and, gratefully, says so.

~ Mary Oliver (from Blue Horses)