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Close up of frosted grass and oak leaves.
Poetry

Thank You

by Ross Gay
If you find yourself half naked and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing, again, the…
Poetry

God’s Grandeur

by Gerard Manley Hopkins
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.     It will flame out, like shining…
Poetry

Life

by Barbara Crooker
This is what life does. It hits you like a stone through the window in…
Poetry

The Stars Fell Through My Window Tonight

by Lauretta Santarossa
The stars fell through my window tonight Astonished I got up They were everywhere Calling…
Poetry

Compost Happens

by Laura Grace Weldon
Nature teaches nothing is lost. It's transmuted. Spread between rows of beans, last year's rusty…
Poetry

Companions

by Richard Wehrman
(Rant for a New Year)
Poetry

A Winter Blue Jay

by Sara Teasdale
Crisply the bright snow whispered, Crunching beneath our feet; Behind us as we walked along…
Poetry

Waiting

by Toko-pa Turner
There is a good kind of waiting which trusts the agents of fermentation. There is…
Poetry

Adrift

by Mark Nepo
Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a…
Poetry

Presence

by Melissa Shaw-Smith
The year has rocked this world to its roots. What if for one day each…
Poetry

The Patience of Ordinary Things

by Pat Schneider
It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea,…
Poetry

Hokusai Says

by Roger S. Keyes
Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious.…
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