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tags: The Sun, Mary Oliver, poetry, National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, and I plan to post one poem per day, every day this month (If you have a favorite poem that you'd like me to share, feel free to email it to me).
The image was kindly provided by my friend, Dave Rintoul, who snapped that picture when we were visiting the Platte River in Nebraska, watching the migrating sandhill cranes.

Sunset over a slough on the Platte River, Nebraska.
Image: Dave Rintoul, March 2008 [larger view].

Today's poem was one I chose for Earth Day, especially for these ending lines;

or have you too
turned from this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power
for things?

This poem was written by one of my favorite living poets, Mary Oliver, whose every poem fills me with the sublime, and it seemed appropriate for this day;

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