Answering Back #10

Mystery and Wonder

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Mysteries, Yes

by Mary Oliver

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Truly, we live with mysteries too marvellous
to be understood.

How grass can be nourishing in the
mouths of the lambs.

How rivers and stones are forever
in allegiance with gravity
while we ourselves dream of rising.

How two hands touch and the bonds will
never be broken.

How people come, from delight or the
scars of damage,
to the comfort of a poem.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.

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Wonder, Yes

by David Dayson

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Chasmal beauty, sapphire wandering sea,
as I go up and over chalk cliffs in spring, 
east of Durdle Door.

One hundred and fifty million years
beneath my hurried feat,
and me a tiny percentage of it all.

The rythm of up and down,
cycles of success and defeat,  
though I know there are neither anymore,

only rolling hills, a circular journey,
taking me back across a ridge,
to where skylarks hover over,

ascend to silence, scan horizons 
I can imagine, but cannot see, 
before they fall to rise again in song. 

Landscape, sky scape, 
escape to where mystery and joy
flow into wonder at simple harmony.

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