https://zech.in/tags/poetry/Recent content in Poetry on arun.zechariahHugoen-usFri, 21 Aug 2026 16:52:47 +0530https://zech.in/posts/the-peace-of-wild-things/Sun, 28 Jan 2024 02:16:01 +0000https://zech.in/posts/the-peace-of-wild-things/<blockquote class="posterous_short_quote"> <p> When despair for the world grows in me<br /> and I wake in the night at the least sound<br /> in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,<br /> I go and lie down where the wood drake<br /> rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.<br /> I come into the peace of wild things<br /> who do not tax their lives with forethought<br /> of grief. I come into the presence of still water.<br /> And I feel above me the day-blind stars<br /> waiting with their light. For a time<br /> I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. </p>