Poems I return to, and that return me to myself. Follow the poets’ names to more of their work.
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- A Person in their Life (Adam Be’Chayyaiv)עבריתYehuda AmichaiA person, in their life, never has the time to have time for everything. There is no season…
- AllowDanna FauldsThere is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado. Dam a stream and it…
- ClearingMartha PostlewaiteDo not try to save the whole world or do anything grandiose. Instead, create a clearing in the…
- Everything is Waiting for YouDavid WhyteYour great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a…
- Go to the Limits of Your LongingRainer Maria RilkeGod speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the…
- Hold Out Your HandJulia FehrenbacherLet’s forget the world for a while fall back and back into the hush and holy of now…
- LostDavid WagonerStand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,…
- LoveCzesław MiłoszLove means to learn to look at yourself The way one looks at distant things For you are…
- PioneerGiannina WeddeI hold the wisdom of winter in my center, the wisdom of darkness that says: Forget everything you…
- PrayingMary OliverIt doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a…
- Saint Francis and the SowGalway KinnellThe bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within,…
- Song of Entering the VillageOsage Nation (traditional)I am home, I am home, I am home, I have now come to the land that is…
- The Snow is FallingAndrea GibsonThe snow is falling. The snow is falling and I didn’t know if I’d see snow again, so…