Cottage Core
You’re in the woods. You’re a lumberjack. You’re darning your own socks. Here are some poems to read from a little book by lamplight.
7 poems
House of Stoneby Carmen Bugan, b. 1970“May your tears and your smiles happen always face to face.”
Loveby "Roy Croft" (disputed attribution)“You are helping me to make out of the lumber of my life, not a tavern, but a temple”
Mysteries, yesby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“Let me keep company, always, with those who say 'look' and laugh in astonishment and bow their heads.”
Song of Wandering Aengusby W.B. Yeats, 1865 ~ 1939“We will pluck til times and times are done, the silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun”
Wedding Toastby Richard Wilbur, 1921 ~ 2017“The world's fullness is not made, but found.”- Wild Geeseby Mary Oliver, 1935 ~ 2019“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
Your Cathedralby Wilfred O'Dea, c1910? ~ unknown“You draw from me broken now holy that yes”