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Poetry, with its impossible-seeming combination of soft lens and precision, brings to our awareness that which might otherwise go unnoticed and unappreciated. May these poems open our hearts to the nuance and opportunity of each moment.

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Poetry

The Call

by Richard Wehrman
It’s not the day on the calendar that makes the New Year new, it’s when…
A small, illuminated log cabin in a clearing blanketed in snow and surrounded by snowcapped trees underneath a navy blue starry sky
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On Safety

by Nadine Pinede
When the storms of life come bearing down threatening to lash you senseless, seek shelter.…
Poetry

Nativity

by Barbara Crooker
The amaryllis bulb, dumb as dirt, inert, how can anything spring from this clod, this…
Poetry

Thanksgiving: Stepping in with Love

by James Crews
Poet James Crews is editing two new anthologies of poetry that center on gratefulness and…
Poetry

For What Binds Us

by Jane Hirshfield
There are names for what binds us: strong forces, weak forces. Look around, you can…
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Merry Autumn

by Paul Laurence Dunbar
It’s all a farce,—these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o’er…
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What if

by Stacey Murphy
what if forgiving was easy? what if overcoming heartache was as simple as a long…
Poetry

Gratitude

by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
The grass seems lusher in the wet gray air, but less approachable now through a…
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Treat

by Marjorie Maddox
Shadows bloom and wilt across the patio, our new home sheds flakes of bright paint,…
Wheat field glowing in golden sunlight
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Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way

by Juan Felipe Herrera
Let us gather in a flourishing way with sunluz grains abriendo los cantos que cargamos…
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October

by Bernadette Miller
Light in leaves in wind in sky. Bright October brings beauty to dead things and…
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From Out the Cave

by Joyce Sutphen
When you have been at war with yourself for so many years that you have…
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