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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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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Ode to 5:30 AM
by Nicki Hayes
Only I know, only I see the light softly dancing over the canopy of trees.…
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Gratitude
by Shane O'Reilly
Joy, my Life Mystery, my Partner Belonging, my Love Narrowness, my Encounter Fear, my Poison…
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Licorice Amen
by Gary Thomas
My grandmother gave me licorice as sacrament, a rite of passage when I was five.…
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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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To My Sonic Toothbrush
by Laura LeHew
The caress of his soft bristles, scalloped for deep, pleasurable, cleaning, sonic waves pulsating, thirty-one…
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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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Cheese
by Joyce Holmes McAllister
An ode to cheese
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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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