Skip to content

Words for the Year

"drink from the well of your self and begin again" ~charles bukowski

“How lucky we are That you can’t sell A poem” by Gregory Orr

On September 8, 2015August 13, 2015 By Christina's WordsIn Poetry

How lucky we are
That you can’t sell
A poem, that it has
No value. Might
As well
Give it away.

That poem you love,
That saved your life,
Wasn’t it given to you?

– from Gregory Orr’s Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Tumblr
  • Pocket
  • More
  • Print
  • Email
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn

Like this:

Like Loading...

Related

Gregory Orr

Post navigation

Previous

“Grace” by Linda Pastan

Next

“For the Young Who Want To” by Marge Piercy

Looking for something in particular? Search here:

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive new posts by email.

Join 4,228 other followers

Care to read through the archives?

Categories

Random Authors and Topics

Alice Walker Ali Shapiro Anaïs Nin Andrea Gibson Anne Sexton Annie Dillard Billy Collins Brian Dean Powers Caitlyn Siehl Cats Charles Bukowski Cheryl Strayed Clementine von Radics Compassion czeslaw milosz Dana Gioia David Foster Wallace David Levithan David Shumate David Whyte death Dennis O'Driscoll depression dogs Dorianne Laux e.e. cummings Edward Hirsch Ellen Bass Emily Dickinson Faith Shearin Galway Kinnell Garrison Keillor Glen Hansard Gratitude grief J.D. Salinger Jack Gilbert Jack Kerouac Jane Hirshfield Jane Kenyon Jim Harrison Kevin Young Kim Addonizio Kim Dower life Linda Pastan Lisel Mueller Louise Glück Love Lyrics Margaret Atwood Marie Howe Mark Strand Mary Oliver Mother Naomi Shihab Nye Neil Gaiman Pablo Neruda Peace Philip Seymour Hoffman poetry Rainer Maria Rilke Rattle Ray Bradbury Raymond Carver Reader Favorite Reader Recommended Reading Repost Richard Jackson Richard Siken Robert Bly Robert Frost Ronald Koertge Ross Gay Rumi Sarah Kay Seamus Heaney slam poetry spring stardust Stephen Dunn Summer Sylvia Plath T.S. Eliot Ted Kooser Terry Tempest Williams The Avett Brothers Tolkien W. S. Merwin Warsan Shire Wendell Berry William Carlos Williams William Shakespeare William Stafford Wislawa Szymborska words Words With Brian Words With Myriam Writing

Top “Recently Viewed”

  • "B" (If I Should Have a Daughter) by Sarah Kay
  • "When Love Arrives" by Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye
  • "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver
  • "Advice to Myself" by Louise Erdrich
  • "For Grief" by John O'Donohue
  • “Invitation” by Mary Oliver
  • "Morning Poem" by Mary Oliver
  • "Possibilities" by Wislawa Szymborska
  • Heavy by Mary Oliver
  • "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver

Recent Tweets

My Tweets

Most “Liked” Posts (by WordPress members)

  • "What Will Your Verse Be?" from Dead Poet's Society
  • "I Said to Poetry" by Alice Walker
  • "Lead" by Mary Oliver
  • "You deserve a lover..." by Frida Kahlo
  • Begin Again
  • "For Grief" by John O'Donohue
  • "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver
  • “Invitation” by Mary Oliver
  • "Our Real Work" by Wendell Berry
  • "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver
Blog at WordPress.com.
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.
<span>%d</span> bloggers like this: