Comments on "When Death Comes" and "The Summer Day" by Mary OliverTypePad2013-07-27T04:22:33ZBrian Hineshttps://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://hinessight.blogs.com/church_of_the_churchless/2013/07/when-death-comes-and-the-summer-day-by-mary-oliver/comments/atom.xml/Sandra commented on '"When Death Comes" and "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e201910481e2a7970c2013-07-31T20:45:00Z2013-08-01T03:22:55ZSandraThank you, Roger :-D<p>Thank you, Roger :-D</p>Roger commented on '"When Death Comes" and "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e201910481486f970c2013-07-31T17:42:46Z2013-08-01T03:22:55ZRogerSandra, Nicely said.<p>Sandra,</p>
<p>Nicely said.</p>Sandra commented on '"When Death Comes" and "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e20191047d23f4970c2013-07-30T20:39:24Z2013-07-30T20:52:27ZSandraYes, Brian, very inspiring poems. I am saying this to myself: Please go through your life with open eyes Instead...<p>Yes, Brian, very inspiring poems.<br />
I am saying this to myself:<br />
Please go through your life with open eyes<br />
Instead of closing them in meditation <br />
in search for a ...don’t know ...God, maybe.<br />
You won’t find anything in the darkness except your own brain-produced thoughts and pictures.<br />
Look around and you will be aware of what you are searching for.<br />
So please – enjoy life as long as possible <br />
‘cause once – too soon – you will keep your eyes closed anyway –<br />
forever.<br />
</p>Roger commented on '"When Death Comes" and "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e201901e8647b6970b2013-07-30T16:59:26Z2013-07-30T17:18:25ZRoger"This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar...<p>"This grasshopper, I mean—<br />
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,<br />
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,<br />
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—......"</p>
<p>---I just love this poem....<br />
the back and forth could represent the non-conceptual, and the up and down the conceptual.</p>777 commented on '"When Death Comes" and "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451c0aa69e201910472af3a970c2013-07-28T14:25:37Z2013-07-30T17:18:25Z777I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. You will be where your heart already...<p>I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,<br />
or full of argument.</p>
<p><br />
You will be where your heart already is.</p>
<p>Like having lost a Lover deliberately</p>
<p><br />
777</p>