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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

One Morning

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
One morning we will wake up and forget to build that wall we’ve been building,…
garlic
Poetry

On Being Called to Prayer while Cooking Dinner for Forty

by Patrick Donnelly
When the heavens and the earth are snapped away like a painted shade, and every…
chocolate
Poetry

Ode to Chocolate

by Barbara Crooker
I hate milk chocolate, don't want clouds of cream diluting the dark night sky, don't…
mountain moon
Poetry

No Solicitations Allowed

by Dale Biron
That year we met, I think You really meant it, that part About “no way”…
zen tea cups
Poetry

Inside the Quiet

by Anne Powell
You could learn a lot just sitting watching God take tea with Buddha in the…
Poetry

Loaves and Fishes

by David Whyte
This is not the age of information. This is not the age of information. Forget…
Poetry

Lightening the Load

by Francis Dorff, O. Praem.
The first thing we have to do is to notice that we've loaded down this…
grasses sun
Poetry

Learning Life

by Catherine Garland
I have learned that fences are for climbing to see if the grass really is…
weeds against a warm background
Poetry

If You Pull Up the Weeds…

by Edda Hackl
“If you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them." ~…
board game
Poetry

I’m Thankful

by Elena Stabile
(written at age 9)
spring meadow sunshine
Poetry

i thank YOU GOD for most this amazing

by e.e. cummings
Published in SHAKING THE TREE
Poetry

I Tell You

by Susan Glassmeyer
This gentle poem draws our attention back to the beauty, dignity and grace of nature,…
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