improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing

I feel my boots

trying to leave the ground,

I feel my heart

pumping hard. I want

to think again of dangerous and noble things.

I want to be light and frolicsome.

I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,

as though I had wings.

Mary Oliver (you can read the full poem here)

1. a quote to live by in 2010, 2. cocentaina, 3. fields of flowers..., 4. like the 16th century 1

(from my flickr favourites)