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
On Safety
by Nadine Pinede
When the storms of lifecome bearing downthreatening tolash you senseless,seek shelter.Find the warmblanket you caresslike…
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Nativity
by Barbara Crooker
The amaryllis bulb, dumb as dirt,inert, how can anything springfrom this clod, this stone,the pit…
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Thanksgiving: Stepping in with Love
by James Crews
Poet James Crews is editing two new anthologies of poetry that center on gratefulness and…
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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…
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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…
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What if
by Stacey Murphy
what if forgiving was easy? what if overcoming heartache was as simple as a long…
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Gratitude
by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
The grass seems lusher in the wet gray air, but less approachable now through a…
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Treat
by Marjorie Maddox
Shadows bloom and wilt across the patio, our new home sheds flakes of bright paint,…
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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…
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Bounty
by Susan Whelehan
The tossed salad at our Soup Kitchen starts with lettuce from the Community Garden, planted…
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