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
A Word is Dead When it is Said
by Emily Dickinson
A WORD is dead When it is said __Some say. I say it just Begins…
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Stand: For Every Teacher I Ever Had or Hadn’t…
by Hakim Bellamy
As we express our gratitude to and for teachers around the U.S. this National Teacher Appreciation…
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Faith
by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Every morning when I was a girl my mother would wake me with song, the…
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The Care Economy
by Hakim Bellamy
“Every great moral and spiritual tradition points to the truth that in the giving of…
Poetry
Lilly
by Francine Marie Tolf
At fifty-three, I sometimes feel a subtle but irreversible sadness seeping into my blood. I…
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At Blue Mountain
by Holly Wren Spaulding
Two loons on a lake in the evening fog, air thick with it, pale water…
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An Ode to Silent Poets
by Tesa Silvestre
You see the precious gift of ordinary things as Pablo Neruda did, but need no…
Poetry
The Stone of Heaven
by Jane Hirshfield
Here, where the rivers dredge up the very stone of Heaven, we name its colors—…
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Blessing
by Carrie Newcomer
May you wake with a sense of play, An exultation of the possible. May you…
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Solstice
by Barbara Crooker
These are dark times. Rumors of warrise like smoke in the east. Droughtwidens its misery.…
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Go to the Limits of Your Longing
by Rainer Maria Rilke, translation by Joanna Macy & Anita Barrows
God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently…
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Three Gratitudes
by Carrie Newcomer
Every night before I go to sleep I say out loud Three things that I'm…
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