johncomic: (Uncle Old Guy)
Curmudge ([personal profile] johncomic) wrote2019-02-04 06:43 pm

yet another Mary Oliver poem

one which I read days ago, but which has stuck with me, with cutting insistence, ever since:





The Old Poets of China


Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.