To Love Her: Poetry & Mixed Media by Jamie Marich

(Based on a first line by Mary Oliver from "The Hummingbird")

The green wheel of her wings
Are powered by sacred breath
The life force of this and every age

Her wings take her to the corners of the earth
Where Divine Order wills her flight
She is vibrant, she is free

She soars with the wisdom of the ages
She owns her beauty and her grace while
Knowing when to rest into her vulnerability

Others have tried to clip her wings
Threatened by their span and their reach
And there was a time she almost let them win

Yet as wise friends observe...
What would be the point of loving her?
To love her is to let her fly.