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Poetry

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

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." ~…
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,…
Poetry

Gratitude

by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
The grass seems lusher in the wet gray air, but less approachable now— thick curtain…
close-up of strawberries resting in a bed of straw
Poetry

Going Deeper

by Anne Powell
Go down down down to the place in you where fire and silence dwell —…
cumulus cloud
Poetry

Glory Expanding, Says Poet

by Michael Lipson
The glory of the sensual world may be expanding according to a crusty New England…
green hills
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For the Children

by Gary Snyder
The rising hills, the slopes, of statistics lie before us. the steep climb of everything,…
dandelion seeds against a blue sky
Poetry

Five Precepts on Happiness

by Bonnie Thurston
1 Though your friends and family will likely try to save you from it, yours…
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