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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Contemplation of a Monk
by Steven Harper
For Br. David Steindl-Rast
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Our Real Work
by Wendell Berry
It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come…
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Because Even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle
by Alison Luterman
Try to love everything that gets in your way: The Chinese women in flowered bathing…
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Ode to the Onion
by Susan Whelehan
I open the front door and walk headlong into the oh so heavenly scent of…
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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
Ode to the Despised
by Brigitte Goetze
Praise the shit-eaters, the revelers in rot, the chewers of soft wood, the gorgers 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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Ode to My Sleeping Lions Bookends
by Betty B. Brown
Fearsome former Kings of Jungle, Recumbent now in peace you slumber, your toothless duty: guarding…
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The Artichoke
by Joyce Holmes McAllister
The artichoke sits on my plate A vegetable that begs debate The novice may but…
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