#dog songs

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[prairiedeath]

like it's literally about me. but no, it's actually about a dog. but yes, it's about me and I am a dog. but-

[antigonick]

He puts his cheek against mine and makes small, expressive sounds. And when I’m awake, or awake enough he turns upside down, his four paws in the air and his eyes dark and fervent. “Tell me you love me,” he says. “Tell me again.” Could there be a sweeter arrangement? Over and over he gets to ask. I get to tell.

Mary Oliver, “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night”, from Dog Songs

[literary-love-songs]

Dog Songs | Mary Oliver

someone very dear to me gave me this book as a gift. i decided to finally sit down and give it a read. it’s hard to get through a poem without tears springing to my eyes.

[doomspaniels]

because Auntie the Tertiary Human had a very appropriate contribution to singing "Born To Be Wild" to Guinevere

[guardseden]

the sweetness of dogs, mary oliver

[everywarmth]

nick bodimeade // mary oliver “dog songs”

[warpspeedch1c]

"i think this is the prettiest world, so long as you don't mind a little dying."

[noodledesk]

But I want to extol not the sweetness nor the placidity of the dog, but the wilderness out of which he cannot step entirely, and from which we benefit. For wilderness is our first home too, and in our wild ride into modernity with all its concerns and problems we need also all the good attachments to that origin that we can keep or restore. Dog is one of the messengers of that rich and still magical first world. The dog would remind us of the pleasures of the body with its graceful physicality, and the acuity and rapture of the senses, and the beauty of forest and ocean and rain and our own breath.

Mary Oliver, Dog Songs

[sierraarie]

Mary Oliver, from Dog Songs

[prairiedeath]

𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑂𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟'𝑠 𝑫𝒐𝒈 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒔

[antigonick]

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Mary Oliver, excerpt of “Percy, Waiting for Ricky”, in Dog Songs

[doomspaniels]

Gwyn be nimble[*]

Gwyn be quick

Gwyn stumble over

grass dancing Tristan

try not to kick!

[*] Good freaking luck

[guardseden]

dog songs by mary oliver <3

excerpt from Bazougey

except from A Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night

excerpt from Percy Wakes Me

excerpt from For I Will Consider My Dog Percy