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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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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,…
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
shirts hanging on a washing line, laundry
Poetry

Aimless Love

by Billy Collins
This morning as I walked along the lakeshore, I fell in love with a wren…
sunbeams, sky, cloud
Poetry

A Sleep of Prisoners

by Christopher Fry
The human heart can go the lengths of God… Dark and cold we may be,…
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…
rainbow over water
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…
spices
Poetry

Itadakimasu*

by John J. Brugaletta
I have received water, flowing and pooled, salt and fresh, cold and hot; wind off…
Poetry

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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