#blue iris

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I've Endured, Now What?

Blue Iris - Mary Oliver / So This Is All I Will Ever Be? - Fatima Aamer Bilal / Vive, Vive - Traci Brimhall

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themontydon

Magnificent and unforgettable blue frilly iris

#blue frilly iris

[pr0ceeding]

Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?

— Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris." Devotions

[joytri]

Now that I'm free to be myself, who am I?

Mary Oliver, "Blue Iris." Devotions

[sunflowerchan20232004]

These are the flowers I think symbolize Stalin's sons the best

[antigonick]

I walk beside the ocean, then turn and continue walking just beside the first berm, a few yards from the water which is at half tide. Eventually I find what I’m looking for, a plant green and with the flavor of raw salt, and leaves shaped like arrowheads. But before that, down the long shore, I have seen many things: shells, waves, once a pair of whimbrels, gulls and terns over the water, rabbits long-legging it through the thickets above the berm. I kneel and pick among the green leaves, not taking all of any plant but a few leaves from each, until my knapsack is filled. Keep your spinach; I’ll have this. Then I stroll home. I’ll cook the leaves briefly; M. and I will eat some and put the rest into the freezer, for winter. The only thing I don’t know is, should the activity of this day be called labor, or pleasure?

—Mary Oliver, "Sea Leaves", in Blue Iris

[petaltexturedskies]

Mary Oliver, Blue Iris: poems and essays

[thatpollguy]

Do you have blue eyes?

Yes

No

I have heterochromia, with one blue eye

Voting ended onNov 9, 2025