9 Jul 2026

POEM: WILD GEESE BY MARY OLIVER

I always keep coming back to this poem; I guess it really is famous for a reason. So many people can relate to the themes or see themselves reflected in the pictures she paints with her words. For me, I grew in a household with a lot of religious guilt that, over the last two decades, I really had to unlearn. Unlearn the shame piled on me. 

Feels like as millennials, we grew up with this fear-based Christian faith that somehow loved talking about hell!  

Also, I love her light, airy way of writing. 


7 Jul 2026

POEM: BANDITS IN A FOREST

 

BANDITS

We're bandits in an abandoned forest, 
On a last-minute adventure at dusk.
Colours fade from trees, sky and red earth;
Tall grasses are whispering quietly to us
On this winter's evening.