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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

Equinox

by Richard Wehrman
The Garden releases its last radiance, not as something failed, but as its full reason…
Poetry

Communion

by Melissa Shaw-Smith
The orb of light crests the ridge, I stand facing her at the high point…
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If You Knew Yourself For Even One Moment

by Jalal al-Din Rumi
If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most…
A cluster of peaches ripening on a peach tree
Poetry

From Blossoms

by Li-Young Lee
From blossoms comes this brown paper bag of peaches we bought from the boy at…
Poetry

Sun Trail

by Dale Biron
Look. The poppies they are at it again exploding on the hills with their deep…
Poetry

A Serious Frivolity

by Bernadette Miller
Savoring the substance of existence is a serious frivolity.
old yellow car
Poetry

Gratefulness

by Dale Biron
Each day the engine of my gratefulness must be coaxed and primed into action. Of…
Poetry

Primary Wonder

by Denise Levertov
Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored…
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Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself,

by Barbara Crooker
like this morning, when the wild geese came squawking, flapping their rusty hinges, and something…
beach with woods
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Psalm 46

by Norman Fisher
The Psalms in the Hebrew Bible belong to the earliest written documents of gratefulness. Ancient…
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Invocation

by Jeanne Lohmann
Let us try what it is to be true to gravity, to grace, to the…
waterfall
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Inversnaid

by Gerard Manley Hopkins
This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb…
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