I’ll link to this one, via a site that actually has permission to reprint this poem. 🙂
I have had a little plaque that says “Dwell in possibility” for several years now, and only today did I get around to actually looking up the poem itself. Wow. Kinda a profound! It also fits with my philosophy of life. Check it out:
Shawn L. Bird 
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This has always been one of my favorites by Emily Dickinson, if it is even possible to pick favorites!
She certainly had a gift, didn’t she? Such a shame she didn’t share it while she was alive.
I totally agree. It seems pain and suffering allow for some of the best forms of art ever inspired. Hmmm, I should be amazing someday!
Best wishes.
Thanks…what will be will be…it’s all good!
That was lovely and, you’re right, profound, and I’d never seen it before. Thank you for posting it, Shawn.
My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
That’s a great mantra – I’m going to have to borrow it for my own home. 🙂
Isn’t it a powerful notion?
Thanx, Shawn. One forgets about Emily, then comes across her without warning, and she slaps one awake to the beauty of everything.
She does, doesn’t she?
i’m a liking it
Good!
I also have this on my wall. Profound. Thank you,
My pleasure.
Oh wow . I remember being thirteen and just falling in Love with Emily Dickinson. I read her poems and her biographies. She led into an obsession with Elizabeth Barret Browning and on and on… She was my first real introduction into great Feminine poetry. I still love how delicate and often fragile her stanzas feel. almost hesitant at times. Anywho I could blather on about it, I will spare you that . I couldn’t get enough of her. thank you for that memory. Incidentally I just found this site you linked the other day and was struck by the plethora of female poets, many of whom I had not read . Great site!
Glad you have enjoyed it.
I feel frequently that I missed out on something not ‘meeting’ Emily Dickinson until I was an English teacher! “Delicate and fragile stanzas” is a good observation. I find her analyses of situations to be very gentle. Very valuable thing, a tender view! I also just discovered Mary Oliver in March. I was struck how similar my style is to hers, and yet I’d never heard of her until I picked up a few books of her work in Portland last spring.
I must admit I know very little (next to nothing really ) about Mary Oliver. I will add her to the list of must reads. I am partial to Sylvia Plath. Our Manic energies are Kindred I think lol Oddly i was watching a you tube channel last night called crash course and they did a show on Emily Dickinson. I’m starting to think the universe is trying to tell me something 🙂
Isn’t it interesting how often that happens? You suddenly discover something new, and then it’s all over the place! I first ‘met’ Sylvia Plath in high school. I found her story fascinating. The frequent suicidal depression was very tragic, though.
We were just discussing this yesterday at my home. We just discovered Crash Course on you tube with John Greene this week and then voila its being talked about on a blog the next day! Yes her depressive stages were her undoing sadly. She went through three rounds at least) of shock therapy . It really affected her ability to write and yet never “cured” her bipolar. Very tragic indeed.
Love her poems !! 🙂
Me, too.
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