(Owl and Young by Osuitok Ipeelee, 1923-
2005, Canadian Inuit printmaker and sculptor)
“We receive but what we give,” wrote the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1832), “and in our life alone does Nature live.”
FOR POETS
Stay beautiful
but don’t stay down underground too long
Don’t turn into a mole
or a worm
or a root
or a stone
Come on out into the sunlight
Breathe in trees
Knock out mountains
Commune with snakes
& be the very hero of birds
Don’t forget to poke your head up
& blink
think
Walk all around
Swim upstream
Don’t forget to fly
~ Al Young, born 1935, American poet
