The Summer Day/Grasshopper

by tbinto (add friend) , Chicago on Saturday, 05/24/2008 at 03:01 PM

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Chloepenguins wrote (9 months ago)

Amazing Artwork!

theSAPINator wrote (over 3 years ago)

Nice drawing and lovely poem. I like the ending because I have had reason to think along those lines lately and it fit nicely into my introspective thoughts as of late.

Xina54 wrote (over 4 years ago)

What a wonderful poem and fabulous illustration. I love the way you used bold strokes to shape the hand and Mr spotty Hopper is just darling.

samy wrote (over 4 years ago)

Nice drawing, and I love the poem, very nice thoughts

christinemb wrote (over 4 years ago)

lovely to see your work!

Menopaws wrote (over 4 years ago)

Well said, tbinto ... and a lovely draw.

tbinto wrote (over 4 years ago)

The Summer Day
By Mary Oliver

Who made the world?

Who made the swan, and the black bear?

Who made the grasshopper?

This grasshopper, I mean--

the one who has flung herself out of the grass,

the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,

who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--

who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.

Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.

Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is.

I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down

into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,

how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,

which is what I have been doing all day.

Tell me, what else should I have done?

Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?

Tell me, what is it you plan to do

With your one wild and precious life?