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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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Poetry

I Awaken Before Dawn

by Helen Moore
I awaken before dawn, go into the kitchen and fix a cup of tea. I…
Poetry

In the Garden

by Fabiana Fondevila
There is truth in the garden and it’s speaking in tongues. There’s steadiness in the…
pyracantha berries
Poetry

Fifty Robins

by Amber Coverdale Sumrall
January rain, fine spray from a celestial hose, blows across the yard, beads on the…
Poetry

Everything is Waiting for You

by David Whyte
Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if…
Poetry

Light

by Bernadette Miller
I want to write of the light but I do not know whether words can…
Poetry

One Flame

by Fabiana Fondevila
In the leaf, in the bud, in the shell-colored sand. In the eye of a…
sunset
Poetry

Benediction

by Bernadette Miller
May you taste the colors of sunset, may you touch the chorus of dawn, may…
Poetry

Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind

by William Shakespeare
Will we be jolly simply in order to erase our forgetfulness? Or will our joy…
Poetry

Unconditional

by Jennifer Welwood
Willing to experience aloneness, I discover connection everywhere; Turning to face my fear, I meet…
Poetry

Kindness

by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve…
cat silhouetted against orange moon
Poetry

Second Halloween

by Joyce Holmes McAllister
Where is your ghost this Halloween? Others float along the street, ringing doorbells,  trick or…
Poetry

The Gift to Sing

by James Weldon Johnson
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, And blackening clouds about me cling; But, oh, I…
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