By CHANCE

"Forget not that the earth delights  to feel your bare feet,and the winds long to play with your hair. " 

                                  - Khalil Gibran

LOVELY CHANCE by Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

O lovely chance, what can I do

To give my gratefulness to you?

You rise between myself and me

With a wise persistency;

I would have broken body and soul,

But by your grace, still I am whole

Many a thing you did to save me,

Many a holy gift you gave me,

More than my dearest dreaming of;

And now in this wide twilight hour

With earth and heaven a dark, blue flower,

In a humble mood I bless

Your wisdom and your waywardness.

You brought me even here, where I Live on a hill against the sky

and look on mountains and the sea, 

 and a thin white moon in the pepper tree.

Photographs 2021