Susan Feathers always has poignant posts. I very much relate to this one.
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things” from The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry. Copyright © 1998. Published and reprinted by arrangement with Counterpoint Press.
Source: Collected Poems 1957-1982 (Counterpoint Press, 1985)
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Dancing Echoes 
March 1, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Beautiful poem and so true. No matter what happens nature will still be there offering peace
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March 1, 2016 at 3:00 pm
That is so true. When all else fails its nature is still there offering peace.
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