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
The Spoon
by Richard Jones
Some days I think I need nothing more in life than a spoon. With a…
Poetry
The Rainbow
by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it…
Poetry
The Priest Writes His Desire
by Jessie Dolch
For Thomas Hand, SJ, friend to Ruben Habito
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The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the…
Poetry
The Offering
by Laura Foley
These woods on the edges of a lake are settling now to winter darkness. Whatever…
Poetry
The Moment
by Margaret Atwood
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand…
Poetry
The Lanyard
by Billy Collins
The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving…
Poetry
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by William Butler Yeats
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build…
Poetry
The Guest House
by Rumi
Translation by Coleman Barks
Poetry
The Cat and the Moon
by William Butler Yeats
The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And…
Poetry
The Bird
by Glenn Colquhoun
My grandfather was a bird. Underneath his white hair he wore crayon-coloured feathers. They were…
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Ten Poems of Otagaki Rengetsu
by (Translation) Kaz Tanahashi and Joan Halifax Roshi
Autumn Moon Fearing my past is exposed to the moon, I keep looking down this…
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