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
Everything is Waiting for You
by David Whyte
Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere…
Poetry
Light
by Bernadette Miller
I want to write of the light but I do not knowwhether words can illuminatethe…
Poetry
One Flame
by Fabiana Fondevila
In the leaf, in the bud, in the shell-colored sand. In the eye of a…
Poetry
Benediction
by Bernadette Miller
May you taste the colors of sunset,may you touch the chorus of dawn,may your eyes…
Poetry
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
by William Shakespeare
Will we be jolly simply in order to erase our forgetfulness? Or will our joy…
Poetry
Unconditional
by Jennifer Welwood
Willing to experience aloneness,I discover connection everywhere;Turning to face my fear,I meet the warrior who…
Poetry
Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Before you know what kindness really isyou must lose things,feel the future dissolve in a…
Poetry
Second Halloween
by Joyce Holmes McAllister
Where is your ghost this Halloween? Others float along the street, ringing doorbells, trick or…
Poetry
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:…
Poetry
Communion
by Melissa Shaw-Smith
The orb of light crests the ridge,I stand facing her at the high point of…
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If You Knew Yourself For Even One Moment
by Rumi
If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most…
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