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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

Those Becoming Already Are

by Marie Marchand
Sifting through crisis we parse flecks of gold from pebbles in silt, mirrors of True…
water shimmering in sunlight over river rocks
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Riverbank Ceremony: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

by Laura Grace Weldon
Step out on mossy water’s-edge rock, let the river’s rush take you beyond yourself. When…
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Poems for Soft Hearts in Hard Times

by The Grateful Living Team
Time and again, we turn to the wisdom and comfort of poems when facing life's…
island shoreline with rocks and sand and bright blue water
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cast away

by Aja Monet
i did not want to write a poem full of corpses so i wrote a…
Poetry

Where I Found the Women

by Noelle Oxenhandler
Once in Spain a path led me through woods to a village of pink stone…
Poetry

Prayer Flag Poems

by Hakim Bellamy
#7 This sound of children singing the sun up will shape every last Himalayan snowflake…
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Mother, Washing Dishes

by Susan Meyers
She rarely made us do it— we’d clear the table instead—so my sister and I…
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Ablution

by Amy Fleury
Because one must be naked to get clean, my dad shrugs out of his pajama…
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Gloria Mundi

by Michael Kleber-Diggs
Come to my funeral dressed as you would for an autumn walk in the woods.…
Landscape view of a dark blue ocean with waves across the center.
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Ocean Love

by Carolyn Chilton Casas
Let me not forget to notice all the seasons of the ocean with an awe-filled…
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Praise Song

by Elaine Handley
We are tattered bits of cloth looking for pattern in the dependable void. At dusk,…
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#7

by Hakim Bellamy
This sound of children singing the sun up will shape every last Himalayan snowflake echo…
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