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
Crossing
by Jericho Brown
The water is one thing, and one thing for miles.The water is one thing, making…
Poetry
The Thing Is
by Ellen Bass
to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve…
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One Candle Now, Then Seven More
by Brad Aaron Modlin
I grew up in a family that did not tellthe story. I am listening to…
Poetry
what is unveiled? the founding wound
by adrienne maree brown
(poem/directive)
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For a New Year
by Holly Wren Spaulding
Let plain things please you againand every ordinary Monday.Bean soup in a white bowl,firewood in…
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Winter Morning
by James Crews
When I can no longer say thank youfor this new day and the waking into…
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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around…
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Trail of Tears: Our Removal
by Linda Hogan
With lines unseen the land was broken.When surveyors came, we knewwhat the prophet had said…
Poetry
Eagle Poem
by Joy Harjo
To pray you open your whole selfTo sky, to earth, to sun, to moonTo one…
Poetry
When a Certain Word Comes to You
by Andrea Potos
This morning it was fluency,the title of a poem I found in a bookI laid…
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A House Called Tomorrow
by Alberto Ríos
You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen—You are a hundred wild centuries And fifteen,…
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It looks like the sky is coming apart and together at the same time*
by Maya Stein
And the body is holding its losses like a fist. And a fleshy hopeis opening…
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