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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Cut Brambles Long Enough
by Sun Bu-er
translation by Jane Hirshfield
Poetry
Boy’s Sleep
by Naomi Shihab Nye
All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets. Tickets, tape, crystallized stones, a…
Poetry
Binsey Poplars Felled
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
My aspens dear, whose airy cage quelled,Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,All felled,…
Poetry
Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things
by Naomi Shihab Nye
She is holding the book close to her body, carrying it home on the cracked…
Poetry
A Dream of Trees
by Mary Oliver
There is a thing in me that dreamed of trees, A quiet house, some green…
Poetry
An African Elegy
by Ben Okri
From AFRICAN ELEGY
Poetry
All That Is Glorious Around Us
by Barbara Crooker
from RADIANCE
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Aimless Love
by Billy Collins
This morning as I walked along the lakeshore,I fell in love with a wrenand later…
Poetry
Thanksgiving Song
by Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
As the Great Dynamo who powers the wheels of seasons and yearsTurns autumn once more…
Poetry
Clearing
by Morgan Farley
I am clearing a space here, where the trees stand back. I am making a…
Poetry
Prayer for Unity
by Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
You, the one From whom on different paths All of us have come. To whom…
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Twelve Moons
by Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
When the wolf moon grows fat and the North wind roars on the shore, an…
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