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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Riverbank Ceremony: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
by Laura Grace Weldon
Step out on mossy water’s-edge rock,let the river’s rush take youbeyond yourself.When you’re ready, kneel,and…
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Poems for Soft Hearts in Hard Times
by The Grateful Living Team
Time and again, we turn to the wisdom and comfort of poems when facing life's…
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cast away
by Aja Monet
i did not want to write a poem full of corpses so i wrote a…
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Where I Found the Women
by Noelle Oxenhandler
Once in Spain a path led me through woodsto a village of pink stone where…
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Prayer Flag Poems
by Hakim Bellamy
#7 This sound of children singing the sun upwill shape every last Himalayan snowflakeecho off…
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Mother, Washing Dishes
by Susan Meyers
She rarely made us do it—we’d clear the table instead—so my sister and I teasedthat…
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Ablution
by Amy Fleury
Because one must be naked to get clean,my dad shrugs out of his pajama shirt,steps…
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Gloria Mundi
by Michael Kleber-Diggs
Come to my funeral dressed as youwould for an autumn walk in the woods. Arrive…
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Ocean Love
by Carolyn Chilton Casas
Let me not forget to noticeall the seasons of the oceanwith an awe-filled soul—equally winter’s…
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Praise Song
by Elaine Handley
We are tattered bits of clothlooking for patternin the dependable void. At dusk, when fevers…
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#7
by Hakim Bellamy
This sound of children singing the sun up will shape every last Himalayan snowflake echo…
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Because This Is What Love Comes To
by Todd Davis
I brush away snow to watch the pulse of water beneath ice. We’re allowed to…
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