The Poetry Apothecary

<p>Hey there, wild one. I’m so happy you are here.</p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p>Follow Dana on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/love.danamarie/">⁠@love.danamarie ⁠</a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p>Apply for mentorship: <a href="https://www.danamariemusic.com/mentorship">https://www.danamariemusic.com/mentorship</a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p>Want to send me your answer to the question I asked in the episode and possibly be featured in a future episode? Send me a voice message! You can do so by sending me a DM on Instagram (@love.danamarie) OR you can send up to 1 minute of a voice recording through Spotify for Podcasters - check it out! <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewildlove" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewildlove</a> </p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Poetry Apothecary at <a href="https://thepoetryapothecary.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">thepoetryapothecary.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Apply for mentorship: <a href="https://www.danamariemusic.com/mentorship">https://www.danamariemusic.com/mentorship</a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p>Follow Dana on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/love.danamarie/">⁠⁠@love.danamarie ⁠⁠</a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p><strong>Egrets</strong><strong> by Mary Oliver</strong></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p>Where the path closed</p><br/><p>down and over,</p><br/><p>through the scumbled leaves,</p><br/><p>fallen branches,</p><br/><p>through the knotted catbrier,</p><br/><p>I kept going. Finally</p><br/><p>I could not</p><br/><p>save my arms</p><br/><p>from thorns; soon</p><br/><p>the mosquitoes</p><br/><p>smelled me, hot</p><br/><p>and wounded, and came</p><br/><p>wheeling and whining.</p><br/><p>And that&#39;s how I came</p><br/><p>to the edge of the pond:</p><br/><p>black and empty</p><br/><p>except for a spindle</p><br/><p>of bleached reeds</p><br/><p>at the far shore</p><br/><p>which, as I looked,</p><br/><p>wrinkled suddenly</p><br/><p>into three egrets - - -</p><br/><p>a shower</p><br/><p>of white fire!</p><br/><p>Even half-asleep they had</p><br/><p>such faith in the world</p><br/><p>that had made them - - -</p><br/><p>tilting through the water,</p><br/><p>unruffled, sure,</p><br/><p>by the laws</p><br/><p>of their faith not logic,</p><br/><p>they opened their wings</p><br/><p>softly and stepped</p><br/><p>over every dark thing.</p><br/><p><br/></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Poetry Apothecary at <a href="https://thepoetryapothecary.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">thepoetryapothecary.substack.com/subscribe</a>

<p>Thanks for listening to today&#39;s episode, wild one. </p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p><strong>Follow Dana on Instagram:</strong> </p><br/><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/love.danamarie/">⁠@love.danamarie ⁠</a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p><strong>Apply for mentorship: </strong><a href="https://www.danamariemusic.com/mentorship">https://www.danamariemusic.com/mentorship</a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5hopR31QfAcmnBE2vSkmXK?si=WtyeFrCqTF-hqqqMpguBAQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Dana&#39;s Music</strong></a></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p><strong>To recap, here are the simple takeaways:</strong></p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><ol><br/> <li>Just because your life doesn’t look the way you thought it would look by now does not mean something is wrong with you. You are unique, and when embraced, you’ll find the beauty in your unraveling story.<br/></li><br/> <li>The questions are normal. The unresolved places in your heart don’t need to be solved today or tomorrow or this year. What would it look like to step fully into your life before the questions are answered?</li><br/></ol><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p><strong>Quote:</strong></p><br/><p><strong> </strong></p><br/><p>“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”</p><br/><p><br/></p><br/><p>- Rainier Maria Rilke, <em>Letters to a Young Poet</em></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Poetry Apothecary at <a href="https://thepoetryapothecary.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">thepoetryapothecary.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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