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I Hope You Dance

Tia Sellers and Mark Sanders   I hope you never lose your sense of wonder, You get your fill to eat but always keep that hunger, May you never take one single breath for granted, I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean, Whenever one door closes I hope one more […]

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Access Road

Alison Luterman   I don’t know if other people feel like there’s a life running alongside their so-called real life like an access road runs alongside the main highway. It’s funkier, lonelier; You didn’t expect to find yourself on this one- lane frontage path, You kept thinking you’d get on the freeway any minute now, […]

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You Reading This, Be Ready

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 […]

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New Life

John Errante   You remember the juice of the peach that you bit, But discarded its heart, this dried up peach pit, Not long ago, I first appeared as a bud in spring, Which brought joy and dreams of the fruit it could bring. As the weeks went on the flowers did glow, As the […]

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Imperfection

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 […]

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Angels

Mary Oliver You might see an angel anytime and anywhere. Of course you have to open your eyes to a kind of second level, but it’s not really hard. The whole business of what’s reality and what isn’t has never been solved and probably never will be. So I don’t care to be too definite […]

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The Stars Are Confused

Katie Spurlock   When there are two versions of my mirror’s reflection, which one is faithful? Is one a lie, a caricatured story in the starry haze of my mind? Is the other the true essence that sees through the meteor shower protecting my heart? Or perhaps, the most perfect of unholiest unions of the […]

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The Journey

Mary Oliver   One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice — though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. “Mend my life!” each voice cried. But you didn’t stop. You knew what […]

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The Way It Is (Rosemerry Trommer)

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   Over and over we break open, we break and we break and we open. For a while, we try to fix the vessel—as if to be broken is bad. As if with glue and tape and a steady hand we might bring things to perfect again. As if they were ever […]

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Fire

Joy Harjo   a woman can’t survive by her own breath                                 alone she must know the voices of mountains she must recognize the foreverness of blue sky she must flow with the elusive bodies of night wind woman who will take her into her own self look at me i am not a separate […]

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Rising to Resilience

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 […]

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Always We Hope

Lao Tzu   Always we hope Someone else has the answer Some other place will be better, Some other time it will all turn out. This is it. No one else has the answer No other place will be better, And it has already turned out. At the center of your being You have the […]

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Hope

-Ingrid Goff-Maidoff     I hung hope out with the laundry, clothes-pinned tenderly beside a pillowcase and two sheets. i could tell she needed air- a sweet puff of wind.  she needed to get warm again basking in the sun.   After a few hours,  I came out with my basket and took her down.  […]

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When I am Among the Trees

Mary Oliver   When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, […]

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A Portable Paradise

Roger Robinson   And if I speak of Paradise, then I’m speaking of my grandmother who told me to carry it always on my person, concealed, so no one else would know but me. That way they can’t steal it, she’d say. And if life puts you under pressure, trace its ridges in your pocket, […]

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Self-Portrait as Root Vegetable

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer It’s science, of course, how the sugars in beets will caramelize when heated, a process that includes conversion, condensation, dehydration, collisions, and the formation of thousands of volatile compounds. And though it’s not simple, and though this process of sweetening is not fully understood, sweetening happens. Every time. Is it wrong this […]

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Authenticity

Just be real friend. Be who you are, and where you are at. That’s enough, and it’s the only way forward. Most of us have put on enough masks in our life time, to have completely forgotten our original face. We’ve become far too clad with the heavy coats of expectation, suffocating under the weight […]

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Begin Anew

Nayyirah Waheed   “i don’t pay attention to the world ending. it has ended for me many times and began again in the morning.   This poem is copyrighted by the poet and is included in the Healing Circles Global poetry wiki because it provides insight, nourishment, and inspiration to the hosts and participants of […]