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Poetry

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…
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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…
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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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The Unbroken

by Rashani Réa
There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which…
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