A Poet Reflects

September 24, 2012 with 177 notes
        tags: Conamara Blues. John O'Donohue. The Annuciation. Irish poetry.

The sentence awakens like a raven,
Fluttering and dark, opening her heart
To nest the voice that first whispered the earth
From dream into wind, stone, sky, and ocean.

—John O’Donohue, from “The Annuciation” in Conamara Blues (Cliff Street Books, 2001)

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