Hello, Sun in My Face!

Hello, Sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning

and spread it over the fields and 

into the faces of tulips

and the nodding morning glories

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety-

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light-

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.

Poem by Mary Oliver

 to help us celebrate the return of light, the new season, the hope we carry  in our hearts.