Today feels like a day to share some calm and lighthearted poems that let you feel the fresh wind on your skin.
Have you been to the sea shore lately? Have you climbed to the top of a hill? If you have been staying close to home, don’t worry: the ocean and the hills will wait for you.
Until I Saw the Sea
Until I saw the sea
I did not know
that wind
could wrinkle water so.
I never knew
that sun
could splinter a whole sea of blue.
Nor
did I know before,
a sea breathes in and out
upon a shore.
by Lilian Moore
How To Tell the Top
of a Hill
The top of a hill
Is not until
The bottom is below.
And you have to stop
When you reach the top
For there’s no more UP to go.
To make it plain
Let me explain:
The one most reason why
You have to stop
When you reach the top–is:
The next step up is sky.
by John Ciardi