Goods by Wendell Berry

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Goods

by Wendell Berry

It's the immemorial feelings
I like the best: hunger, thirst,
their satisfaction; work-weariness,
earned rest; the falling again
from loneliness to love;
the green growth the mind takes
from the pastures in March;
the gayety in the stride
of a good team of Belgian mares
that seems to shudder from me
through all my ancestry.

"Goods" by Wendell Berry, from Collected Poems.

Comments

[bender-927.livejournal.com]

People get caught up in emotion a lot, but it's true that no matter who you are, where you live, or what stage of life you're in, you can't deny the need to address certain feelings (eg hunger, thirst), or how wonderfully satisfying it is when you do. It makes us all human at the end of the day. I like this poem. :)

[punkinelf.livejournal.com]

It also reminds of the commonality of people. The major emotions should elicit empathy, connectedness. It's a good poem

[doveriandragoon.livejournal.com]

This is exceptional. At once uplifting and a little... despondent? There's a longing there, for both the simple and the higher needs.