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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

Faith

by David Whyte
from Where Many Rivers Meet
Deer hidden amongst grass.
Poetry

Deer Wisdom

by Pat Campbell Carlson
I love the way the doe knows how to go through the tall brambles: She…
Poetry

Cut Brambles Long Enough

by Sun Bu-er
translation by Jane Hirshfield
Looking up at corn growing.
Poetry

Crows

by Kathleen Kramer
For my grandparents
potato salad with eggs
Poetry

Comfort Food

by Joyce Holmes McAllister
"Why not eat potato salad on Christmas, is there a law?" Then you would describe…
Poetry

Clay

by Octavia Bennett
written in 1998 at age 10
Poetry

Boy’s Sleep

by Naomi Shihab Nye
All day a boy plunges his hands into his pockets. Tickets, tape, crystallized stones, a…
felled trees poplars
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,…
open book pages moving
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…
African landscape sunset with tree
Poetry

An African Elegy

by Ben Okri
From AFRICAN ELEGY
Rain blurs the view from a window
Poetry

All That Is Glorious Around Us

by Barbara Crooker
from RADIANCE
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