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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

Gratitude

by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
The grass seems lusher in the wet gray air, but less approachable now— thick curtain…
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Going Deeper

by Anne Powell
Go down down down to the place in you where fire and silence dwell —…
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Glory Expanding, Says Poet

by Michael Lipson
The glory of the sensual world may be expanding according to a crusty New England…
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For the Children

by Gary Snyder
The rising hills, the slopes, of statistics lie before us. the steep climb of everything,…
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Five Precepts on Happiness

by Bonnie Thurston
1 Though your friends and family will likely try to save you from it, yours…
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Faith

by David Whyte
from Where Many Rivers Meet
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Deer Wisdom

by Pat Campbell Carlson
I love the way the doe knows how to go through the tall brambles: She…
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Cut Brambles Long Enough

by Sun Bu-er
translation by Jane Hirshfield
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Crows

by Kathleen Kramer
For my grandparents
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Comfort Food

by Joyce Holmes McAllister
"Why not eat potato salad on Christmas, is there a law?" Then you would describe…
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Clay

by Octavia Bennett
written in 1998 at age 10
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Boy’s Sleep

by Naomi Shihab Nye
All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets. Tickets, tape, crystallized stones, a…
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