With their poem "May You Wake with Goodness", Lebanese-American poet Moudi Sbeity extends the kindness of an Arabic blessing.
Tag: Kindness
Max Nobis – Sweetness Defined
Cleveland poet Max Nobis unspools an ode to Helen, a figure of radiance and mirth, an avatar worthy of adoration.
Joy Sullivan – Sister
Joy Sullivan's poem on the lived sense of healing while being held in another person's deep, loving attention.
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.
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.
Philip Larkin – The Mower
Philip Larkin's simple and heartbreaking poem about how to take care of each other and look out for one another.
Mary Oliver – Wild Geese
Wild Geese runs like an exhalation, beginning with a lifting of the weight of religious culpability - in the prairies and the deep trees, there is no onus to be good nor to string oneself out in repentance.
Better Than We Think: Directing Self-Love
Sharon Salzberg on why the richest way of loving means starting with our very selves.
Respecting Ourselves, Respecting Things
Zenkei Blanche Hartman discusses respect for the physical world, which starts with respect for ourselves, grounded in interconnectedness.
Naomi Shihab Nye’s Poem on Loss and Kindness
Victor Hugo's claim that 'Those who do not weep do not see,' is echoed here by poet Naomi Shihab Nye in her poem Kindness. Sorrow and grief will soften and open up our hearts, priming them for kindness and compassion in a way that's never quite possible before the experience of a devastating loss. Our… Continue reading Naomi Shihab Nye’s Poem on Loss and Kindness