<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/abcee8df-2085-4e5a-b4dd-04a31797b7b8/DD4569F2-E915-4EFE-B202-2DFD13F476CF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://virtualteahouse.com/blogs/krayna/archive/2009/07/01/july-2009-poem-of-the-month-the-summer-day.aspx" href="http://virtualteahouse.com/blogs/krayna/archive/2009/07/01/july-2009-poem-of-the-month-the-summer-day.aspx" style="font-size: 11px;">virtualteahouse.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://virtualteahouse.com/blogs/krayna/archive/2009/07/01/july-2009-poem-of-the-month-the-summer-day.aspx"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/virtualteahouse.com/img/1D9BD741-CE75-4A81-83DE-C0D82FA7AD16" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://virtualteahouse.com/blogs/krayna/archive/2009/07/01/july-2009-poem-of-the-month-the-summer-day.aspx"><P class="MsoNormal"><B><SPAN>The Summer Day<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></p> <P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>Who made the world?<BR />Who made the swan, and the black bear?<BR />Who made the grasshopper?<BR />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 – <BR />who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.<BR />Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.<BR />Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.<BR />I don't know exactly what a prayer is.<BR />I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down<BR />into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,<BR />how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,<BR />which is what I have been doing all day.<BR />Tell me, what else should I have done?<BR />Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?<BR /><I>Tell me, what is it you plan to do<BR />with your one wild and precious life?</I></SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://virtualteahouse.com/blogs/krayna/archive/2009/07/01/july-2009-poem-of-the-month-the-summer-day.aspx"><SPAN>Mary Oliver – <I>From House of Light</I>, 1990<O:P></O:P></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DD4569F2-E915-4EFE-B202-2DFD13F476CF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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