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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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A pine tree backlit by the rising sun with a pine forest, mountaintops and blue sky in the background
Poetry

The Cure for It All

by Julia Fehrenbacher
Go gently today, don’t hurry or think about the next thing. Walk with the quiet…
Poetry

#12

by Hakim Bellamy
The network of caverns inside my heart has enough rooms for in-laws and aging parents.…
Poetry

Poem Ending with a Line by Rumi

by Barbara Crooker
White-throated sparrows dart in and out of the hedgerow, their sweet long notes rising above…
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Belonging

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
And if it’s true we are alone,we are alone together,the way blades of grassare alone,…
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Pigeons

by Danusha Laméris
Because they crowd the corner of every city street, because they are the color of…
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For the Love of Avocados

by Diane Lockward
I sent him from home hardly more than a child. Years later, he came back…
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Ode to Autumn

by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
So many colors abandon the earth, and go skyward to the trees like origami birds,…
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When Beginning the Poem

by Andrea Potos
may there be a listening rather than a making curiosity over expectation, lightness and ease,…
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The Kinneret

by Chanda Feldman
Over the hills in the north, the lake comes into view—azure blue water. At first…
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My People

by Langston Hughes
Dream-singers, Story-tellers, Dancers, Loud laughers in the hands of Fate—            My People. Dish-washers, Elevator-boys, Ladies’…
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The Second Music

by Annie Lighthart
Now I understand that there are two melodies playing,one below the other, one easier to…
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Morning Poem

by Todd Davis
Blackberries hang in the darkest creases of the trellis, each dimpled to bursting. The black-eyed…
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