March 26, 2013

Poetry Tuesday: Immemorial Feelings


Spring field by tanakawho, via Flickr

Goods by Wendell Berry

It's the immemorial feelings
I like the best: hunger, thirst,
their satisfaction; work-weariness,
earned rest; the falling again
from loneliness to love;
the green growth the mind takes
from the pastures in March;
the gayety in the stride
of a good team of Belgian mares
that seems to shudder from me
through all my ancestry.

see more on the Writer's Almanac Blog
(an absolute favorite of mine)

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