In this poem, Hirshfield asks us: Whose voices, which urgings from within and without, will we follow onto a life’s path?
Category: Poetry
Li-Young Lee – From Blossoms
Beyond the nationality and identity markers that divide us, Li-Young Lee's poem connects us with what occurs when our sense of being separate, solitary 'selves' drops.
Ellen Bass – If You Knew
What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? Ellen Bass draws us in to the brief moments of contact that fill our day and urges us to consider the fleeting nature of every life we meet.
Rainer Maria Rilke – A Walk
In this short and inspiring poem, Rilke asks what beckons us towards ideal states and what value does the search provide?
Danusha Laméris – Stone
Danusha Lameris' poem Stone invokes the turning towards a way of being, a focused, cherishing attending.
Ashley Capps – Kindly
Love of life is the animating force behind all living things; each moment we decide to give or withhold love is an emergency for someone.
David Whyte – The Opening of Eyes
Whyte's poem of clear seeing: the experience of holiness is the very ground that is under our feet.
Teddy Macker – This World
We will find life intoxicating; we’ll yearn to commune with its beauty, and we’ll also get utterly wrung out by it all and lose our way.
Annie Lighthart – The Second Music
The richness sparked by even a moment of touching into intimacy with life may become what we seek to find again, and again.
Tess Gallagher – Choices
When we have the capacity to hold back and turn away from the harm we might do.