{"id":2424,"date":"2017-10-06T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T14:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:45:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:45:54","slug":"oct-6-mary-oliver-there-was-a-new-voice-which-you-slowly-recognized-as-your-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2017\/10\/06\/oct-6-mary-oliver-there-was-a-new-voice-which-you-slowly-recognized-as-your-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 6 &#8212; Mary Oliver &#8220;there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own,&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 6, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day you finally knew<br \/>\nwhat you had to do, and began,<br \/>\nthough the voices around you<br \/>\nkept shouting their bad advice\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Readers often surprise me with stories about a poem or a poet or self stories about insight and decision. \u00a0Sometimes the stories take me back to September 2013 when this list began during some hard times in the city and on campus. \u00a0The hard times became an intuition that led to this list, c. 508 posts ago.\u00a0 The original wording appears at the top of the archive blog where all previous posts appear. \u00a0I re-read it now and then to remind me of the origins.\u00a0 Check it out. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\">https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best to read Mary Oliver out loud, with pauses.<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning; \u00a0have a blest October weekend.<\/p>\n<p>john sj<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Post\u00a0\u201cThe Journey\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One day you finally knew<br \/>\nwhat you had to do, and began,<br \/>\nthough the voices around you<br \/>\nkept shouting<br \/>\ntheir bad advice \u2014<br \/>\nthough the whole house<br \/>\nbegan to tremble<br \/>\nand you felt the old tug<br \/>\nat your ankles.<br \/>\n\u201cMend my life!\u201d<br \/>\neach voice cried.<br \/>\nBut you didn\u2019t stop.<br \/>\nYou knew what you had to do,<br \/>\nthough the wind pried<br \/>\nwith its stiff fingers<br \/>\nat the very foundations,<br \/>\nthough their melancholy<br \/>\nwas terrible.<br \/>\nIt was already late<br \/>\nenough, and a wild night,<br \/>\nand the road full of fallen<br \/>\nbranches and stones.<br \/>\nBut little by little,<br \/>\nas you left their voice behind,<br \/>\nthe stars began to burn<br \/>\nthrough the sheets of clouds,<br \/>\nand there was a new voice<br \/>\nwhich you slowly<br \/>\nrecognized as your own,<br \/>\nthat kept you company<br \/>\nas you strode deeper and deeper<br \/>\ninto the world,<br \/>\ndetermined to do<br \/>\nthe only thing you could do \u2014<br \/>\ndetermined to save<br \/>\nthe only life that you could save.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Oliver<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Mary-Oliver.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/170\/2015\/01\/Mary-Oliver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"98\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>September 10, 1935<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, October 6, 2017 \u201cOne day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice\u201d Readers often surprise me with stories about a poem or a poet or self &hellip; 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