#WanderingWednesday: #IWanderedLonely As A Cloud By William Wordsworth

On this day of the week, let our heart, mind and soul wander with some poems.

The objective of this initiative is: Poetry is an art form that helps in awakening of ‘self’. To be successful we need inner strength and calm that poetry provides in abundance. The best part is its universal!

This week Poet: William Wordsworth, (1770 – 1850) British Romantic Poet

Poem: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud . Written around 1802.

Why I like this poem:

Wordsworth a nature poet. In this poem he internalizes nature. It is so very relevant today: we hardly have time to stop to smell roses. We are so hard pressed for time and always in a state of tension. This poem lets you relax … lets your mind wander … dream … visualize …. And then be part of the big picture. That is how I use this poem: In building culture N vision statements.

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils. 

By William Wordsworth

Please do share some poems that you love to read and lose yourself in J