I wish I'd written this. I didn't though - Pat Schneider did. Think on this:
The Patience of Ordinary Things
It is a kind of love, is it not?
How the cup holds the tea,
How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare,
How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes
Or toes. How soles of feet know
Where they're supposed to be.
I've been thinking about the patience
Of ordinary things, how clothes
Wait respectfully in closets
And soap dries quietly in the dish,
And towels drink the wet
From the skin of the back.
And the lovely repetition of stairs.
And what is more generous than a window?
13 comments:
I wish too! Exquisite, profound and couldn't be simpler. Thank you for finding this flower of poetry and putting it in your public vase.
I love this, pauline. So original, and giving us simple reasons (in such unexpected ways) for gratefulness. I understand why you wanted to borrow it, share it, and thanks much for doing so.
Beautiful. Thank you for passing it on.
Yes, what wonderful words. Thank you for putting them out there for all of us.
Another simple act that makes one smile and know that all is as it should be
this "feels" good to read. such joyful abundance surrounds us.
Lovely!
Thanks, all. Isn't it a marvelous tribute to the small things?
Yes! Thankyou for posting this P.
This is perfect and we never really pay homage to these things. WE should all try to add to this list just by going about our daily lives, observing more carefully.
I popped by on the recommendation of Herhimnbryn and glad I came. Thanks, Pauline - nice one!
HHB - glad you liked it
MOI - how true! that's what I thought when I read it, too
glad to have you stop by Avus.
These are thoughts worth borrowing. Thanks!
Yes, indeed. So appropriate how all those things somehow work together. Great, deceptively simple words. Love the coloured glass too.
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