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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

You Don’t Know Me But

by Laura Grace Weldon
I miss you, fellow walkers – dad with double stroller, rainbow legging woman, earnest black…
Poetry

Neighbors

by James Crews
Where I'm from, people still wave to each other, and if someone doesn't, you might…
Poetry

Where We Are Headed

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
At first we just say flower. How thrilling it is to name. Then it’s aster.…
Poetry

Praise

by Angelo Geter
Today I will praise. I will praise the sun For showering its light On this…
Poetry

#11

by Hakim Bellamy
If I spell my name in bruised melanin and ink           …
Poetry

Among the Endlessness

by Laura Foley
Of new spring leaves, maples in their budding greens, I sit on copper leaves of…
Poetry

Daydream

by A.S.J. Tessimond
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, And loving be natural as breathing…
Poetry

Today, When I Could Do Nothing

by Jane Hirshfield
Today, when I could do nothing, I saved an ant. It must have come in…
Poetry

A.M.: Inside and Out

by Marjorie Maddox
Here is the landscape of my son, prying open the horizon with his grin, of…
Poetry

An Invitation

by Bernadette Miller
Death has always been an invitation to inhabit the celebration of this irreplaceable instant. We…
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Poetry

Lockdown

by Fr. Richard Hendrick, OFM
Yes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there…
Poetry

Thankful for Now

by Todd Davis
Walking the river back home at the end of May, locust in bloom, an oriole…
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