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.
Category: Poetry
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.
Laura Fargas – Kuan Yin
This ode to the Bodhisattva of Compassion casts her as a person in the world, who could be one or many.
Naomi Shihab Nye – The Art of Disappearing
A tribute to the serene wisdom of choosing when to step into the light and when to fade into the shadows.
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Pat Schneider – The Patience of Ordinary Things
If ever there was an antidote to the idea of a hostile world against which we are perpetually opposed, it's this poem.
Denise Levertov – The Secret
The unintentional authoring of a line that reveals something profound to a reader, remains a mystery to the author herself.
Linda Pastan – Why Are Your Poems So Dark?
Linda Pastan's poem is an ode to the power of the ubiquitous and necessary darkness, and sadness, in our lives.
Archibald Macleish – Ars Poetica
A reflection on the silence, stillness and powerful presence of poetry by one of the 21st century's leading modernist poets.