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Poetry

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 our hearts to the nuance and opportunity of each moment.

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Poetry

Vigils the Night Watch

by Deidra Greenleaf Allan
Dazzling, even under glass, the sky’s blue plate special shimmers up from the creek bed,…
Poetry

Vessel

by Patricia Campbell Carlson
Each day i’m a little crazier with missing you. The dog still snores on the…
Poetry

Under the Walnut Tree

by Lynn Martin
When I face what has left my life, I bow.  I walk outside into the…
Poetry

Thoughts

by Ryokan, translated by John Stevens
When all thoughts Are exhausted I slip into the woods And gather A pile of…
Poetry

The Wishing Fish

by Thomas Vorce  
What if you could be a trout And splash and flip And flop about. Amidst…
Poetry

The Spoon

by Richard Jones
Some days I think I need nothing more in life than a spoon. With a…
rainbow
Poetry

The Rainbow

by William Wordsworth
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it…
Poetry

The Priest Writes His Desire

by Jessie Dolch
For Thomas Hand, SJ, friend to Ruben Habito
great blue heron
Poetry

The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at…
Poetry

The Offering

by Laura Foley
These woods on the edges of a lake are settling now to winter darkness. Whatever…
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The Moment

by Margaret Atwood
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand…
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The Lanyard

by Billy Collins
The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving…
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