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 your heart to the nuance and opportunity of each moment.
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Poetry
Nativity
by Barbara Crooker
The amaryllis bulb, dumb as dirt,inert, how can anything springfrom this clod, this stone,the pit…
Poetry
Thanksgiving: Stepping in with Love
by James Crews
Poet James Crews is editing two new anthologies of poetry that center on gratefulness and…
Poetry
For What Binds Us
by Jane Hirshfield
There are names for what binds us:strong forces, weak forces.Look around, you can see them:the…
Poetry
Merry Autumn
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
It’s all a farce,—these tales they tellAbout the breezes sighing,And moans astir o’er field and…
Poetry
Let Us Gather in a Flourishing Way
by Juan Felipe Herrera
Let us gather in a flourishing waywith sunluz grains abriendo los cantosque cargamos cada díaen…
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October
by Bernadette Miller
Light in leaves in wind in sky. Bright October brings beautyto dead thingsand the wingless…
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From Out the Cave
by Joyce Sutphen
When you have beenat war with yourselffor so many years thatyou have forgotten why,when you…
Poetry
In the Middle
by Barbara Crooker
of a life that’s as complicated as everyone else’s,struggling for balance, juggling time.The mantle clock…
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How It Might Continue
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Wherever we go, the chance for joy,whole orchards of amazement— one more reason to always…
Poetry
More
by James Crews
I know it's summer when we wade outinto the field and pick these crisp wonders,tiny…
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One Brief Sparkling Flash: A Collection of Haiku
by The Grateful Living Team
We created an 8-day exploration of haiku as gratefulness practice in the Spring of 2019…
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Improvement
by Danusha Laméris
The optometrist says my eyesare getting better each year.Soon he’ll have to lower my prescription.What’s…
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