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
Vacillation
by William Butler Yeats
I Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath. Comes to destroy…
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Worms
by Carl Dennis
Aren't you glad at least that the earthworms Under the grass are ignorant, as they…
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My Symphony
by William Ellery Channing
To live content with small means. To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather…
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In the Garden
by Fabiana Fondevila
There is truth in the garden and it’s speaking in tongues.There’s steadiness in the rockssitting…
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Everything is Waiting for You
by David Whyte
Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere…
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Light
by Bernadette Miller
I want to write of the light but I do not knowwhether words can illuminatethe…
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One Flame
by Fabiana Fondevila
In the leaf, in the bud, in the shell-colored sand. In the eye of a…
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Benediction
by Bernadette Miller
May you taste the colors of sunset,may you touch the chorus of dawn,may your eyes…
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Unconditional
by Jennifer Welwood
Willing to experience aloneness,I discover connection everywhere;Turning to face my fear,I meet the warrior who…
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Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a…
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The Gift to Sing
by James Weldon Johnson
Sometimes the mist overhangs my path, And blackening clouds about me cling; But, oh, I…
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Equinox
by Richard Wehrman
The Garden releases its lastradiance, not as something failed,but as its full reason for being:…
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