Gift : Czeslaw Milosz

Gift 

 A day so happy. 

 Fog lifted early, I worked in the garden. 

 Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. 

 There was no thing on earth I wanted to possess. 

 I knew no one worth my envying him. 

 Whatever evil I had suffered, I forgot. 

 To think that once I was the same man did not embarrass me. 

 In my body I felt no pain. 

 When straightening up, I saw the blue sea and sails. 

 Berkeley, 1971.

Excerpt From: "Great Short Poems from Around the World" 

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