It’s All I Have to Bring Today
poem 26
It’s All I Have to Bring Today - meaning Summary
Offering Self and Landscape
The speaker presents a humble gift composed of inner feeling and the surrounding natural world: their heart, fields, meadows, and bees. The poem frames this offering as everything they can bring, mixing modesty with sincerity. It asks listeners to recognize and account for what might be overlooked, suggesting trust in others and valuing small, intimate connections to landscape and self over material wealth or grand gestures.
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