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Phyllis Babcock The hot days of summer came on very quickly heat became oppressive drying the soil at a rapid rate fields started to show drought garden leaves hung from the sun’s heat animals looked for shade water became more sparse grass turning brown cracks appeared on the ground relentless the sun beat only […]
Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. For once on the face of the earth, let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for a second, and not move our arms so much. It would be an exotic moment without rush, without engines; we would all be […]
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer And if, as I now know, the closet is sacred and the bare room is sacred and the sidewalk and classroom and the ER are sacred, then I trip into the teaching that everywhere is sacred— not only the church, but the alley. Not only the mosque, but the bench. Not […]
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer I want a word that means okay and not okay, a word that means devastated and stunned with joy. I want the word that says I feel it all all at once. The heart is not like a songbird singing only one note at a time, more like a Tuvan throat […]
William Stafford Starting here, what do you want to remember? How sunlight creeps along a shining floor? What scent of old wood hovers, what softened sound from outside fills the air? Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now? Are […]
Padraig O Tuama It all begins with knowing nothing lasts forever. So you might as well start packing now. But, in the meantime, practice being alive. There will be a party where you’ll feel like nobody’s paying you attention. And there will be a party where attention’s all you’ll get. What you […]
Elizabeth Carlson I am falling in love with my imperfections The way I never get the sink really clean, forget to check my oil, lose my car in parking lots, miss appointments I have written down, am just a little late. I am learning to love the small bumps on my face the big […]
Wendell Berry No, no, there is no going back. Less and less you are that possibility you were. More and more you have become those lives and deaths that have belonged to you. You have become a sort of grave containing much that was and is no more in time, beloved then, now, and […]
Alberto Ríos We give because someone gave to us. We give because nobody gave to us. We give because giving has changed us. We give because giving could have changed us. We have been better for it, We have been wounded by it. Giving has many faces: It is loud and quiet, Big, though […]
Sarah Salway Naked in a green room, she needs no mirrors to applaud the way she stretches stems heavy with unruffled flowers, watches her petals gently fall sure they will stay as still as she left them, this scented carpet to wake up to when every day is new and every second hers alone. […]
By Linda Ellis I read of a man who stood to speak At the funeral of a friend He referred to the dates on the tombstone From the beginning…to the end He noted that first came the date of birth And spoke the following date with tears, But he said what mattered most of […]
by Marge Piercy This is the blessing for rain after drought: Come down, wash the air so it shimmers, a perfumed shawl of lavender chiffon. Let the parched leaves suckle and swell Enter my skin; wash me for the little chrysalis of sleep rocked in your plashing. In the morning the world is peeled […]
Mary Oliver Oh do you have time to linger for just a little while out of your busy and very important day for the goldfinches that have gathered in a field of thistles for a musical battle, to see who can sing the highest note, or the lowest, or the most expressive of mirth, […]
Julia Fehrenbacher Let’s forget the world for a while fall back and back into the hush and holy of now are you listening? This breath invites you to write the first word of your new story your new story begins with this: You matter you are needed—empty and naked willing to say yes and yes […]
Brian Doyle I was on a gleaming elevator in a vast hotel in a huge city The other day when a man got on with his daughter about Age four. I asked her what floor they wanted and she said Seven million. I reached up as high as I could and pressed An imaginary […]
Will we rise? Or just survive. Hesitate to shake hands Or grab everyone in a warm embrace. Will we still be kind? Or carry on blind. Moving back through the hustle and bustle Or continue to knock on our neighbours’ doors. Will we be grateful? Or just frustrated. Of time lost to do what we […]
Julia Fehrenbacher Go gently today, don’t hurry or think about the next thing. Walk with the quiet trees, can you believe how brave they are—how kind? Model your life after theirs. Blow kisses at yourself in the mirror especially when you think you’ve messed up. Forgive yourself for not meeting your unreasonable expectations. You […]
by S.C. Lourie You could have given up, but you kept on going. You could have seen obstacles, but you called them adventures. You could have called them weeds, but instead you called them wildflowers. You could have died a caterpillar, but you fought on to be a butterfly. You could have denied yourself […]
Rashani Rea There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken. There is a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond all grief which leads to joy And a fragility out of whose depths emerges strength. There is a hollow space too vast for words Through which we […]
Freya Manford Old friends are a steady spring rain, or late summer sunshine edging into fall, or frosted leaves along a snowy path— a voice for all seasons saying, I know you. The older I grow, the more I fear I’ll lose my old friends, as if too many years have scrolled by since the […]
Naomi Shihab Nye We forget about the spaciousness above the clouds but it’s up there.The sun’s up there too. When words we hear don’t fit the day, when we worry what we did or didn’t do, what if we close our eyes, say any word we love that makes us feel calm, slip it […]
Claire Dubois Whether or not you know that you are beautiful, the flowers gaze at you whenever you walk by. When your heart feels like stone and you’ve lost sight of the gifts being given, you are still held by the earth beneath you and kissed by the breath of the trees. When you’ve […]
Alix Koloff Allow the golden, glistening moments to weave themselves Into an intricately crafted tapestry of experiences, Thread by thread Intertwining past, present, and future Into one awe-inspiring spectacle for the universe to behold here, now. Let your life be your art. The way you move your body As you work, on the street, […]
Mary Oliver My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird – equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the blue plums. Here the clam deep in the speckled sand. Are my boots old? Is my coat torn? Am I no longer young and still not half-perfect? Let me […]
Naomi Shihab Nye We forget about the spaciousness above the clouds but it’s up there.The sun’s up there too. When words we hear don’t fit the day, when we worry what we did or didn’t do, what if we close our eyes, say any word we love that makes us feel calm, slip it […]
Jan Richardson I cannot tell you how the light comes. What I know is that it is more ancient than imagining. That it travels across an astounding expanse to reach us. That it loves searching out what is hidden what is lost what is forgotten or in peril or in pain. That it has […]
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