I love the poems of American poet Wendell Berry. Such simple and elegant writing that takes the reader back to the bare essentials of nature and its calming beauty. I reproduce my favourite Wendell Berry poem below:<\/p>\n
When despair grows in me\r\nand I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound\r\nin fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,\r\nI go and lie down where the wood drake\r\nrests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.\r\nI come into the peace of wild things\r\nwho do not tax their lives with forethought\r\nof grief.\r\nI come into the presence of still water.\r\nAnd I feel above me the day-blind stars\r\nwaiting for their light.\r\nFor a time\r\nI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.\r\n\r\n~ Wendell Berry<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love the poems of American poet Wendell Berry. Such simple and elegant writing that takes the reader back to the bare essentials of nature and its calming beauty. I reproduce my favourite Wendell Berry poem below: The peace of … Continue reading