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Poetry

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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bright yellow lemons ripening on a tree
Poetry

Ode to Lemons

by Michelle Courtney Berry
Today, the sun-glazed bag of lemons adorning the white counter became in my imagination,...
Poetry

Contemplation of a Monk

by Steven Harper
For Br. David Steindl-Rast
Poetry

Our Real Work

by Wendell Berry
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come…
Poetry

Because Even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle

by Alison Luterman
Try to love everything that gets in your way: The Chinese women in flowered bathing…
Poetry

Ode to the Onion

by Susan Whelehan
I open the front door and walk headlong into the oh so heavenly scent of…
Poetry

A Word is Dead When it is Said

by Emily Dickinson
A WORD is dead When it is said __Some say. I say it just Begins…
Poetry

Stand: For Every Teacher I Ever Had or Hadn’t…

by Hakim Bellamy
As we express our gratitude to and for teachers around the U.S. this National Teacher Appreciation…
Poetry

Faith

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Every morning when I was a girl my mother would wake me with song, the…
Poetry

The Care Economy

by Hakim Bellamy
“Every great moral and spiritual tradition points to the truth that in the giving of…
Poetry

Ode to the Despised

by Brigitte Goetze
Praise the shit-eaters, the revelers in rot, the chewers of soft wood, the gorgers of…
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Lilly

by Francine Marie Tolf
At fifty-three, I sometimes feel a subtle but irreversible sadness seeping into my blood. I…
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Ode to My Sleeping Lions Bookends

by Betty B. Brown
Fearsome former Kings of Jungle, Recumbent now in peace you slumber, your toothless duty: guarding…
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