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For When People Ask

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 […]

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How to belong Be Alone

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 […]

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The Most Important Thing

Julia Fehrenbacher   I am making a home inside myself. A shelter of kindness where everything is forgiven, everything allowed—a quiet patch of sunlight to stretch out without hurry, where all that has been banished and buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to—released. ​ A fiercely friendly place I can claim as my very own. ​ […]

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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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Love After Love

Derek Walcott   The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to […]

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A Party for the Broken

Tom Hirons   Tonight we will have a party Only for the broken pieces. Only the crooked and the blunt ones Are welcome tonight; The shattered and the stained can come, But you perfected ones should stay away. All the orphans and exiles Will be arriving soon with their Bundles of rags and sorrow. Make […]

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Bioluminescence

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   Sometimes, when I fear the small light I bring isn’t big enough or bright enough, I think of that night on the beach years ago when every step I took in the cool wet sand turned a glowing, iridescent blue— and the waves themselves were a flashing greenish hue— imagine we could […]

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Hold Out Your Hand

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 […]

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Holidays

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart, When the full river of feeling overflows;— The happy days unclouded to their close; The sudden joys that out of darkness start As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart Like […]

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The Poet Dreams of the Mountain

Mary Oliver   Sometimes I grow weary of the days, with all their fits and starts. I want to climb some old gray mountain, slowly, taking the rest of my lifetime to do it, resting often, sleeping under the pines or, above them, on the unclothed rocks. I want to see how many stars are […]

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Working Together

David Whyte   We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invisible working together in common cause, to produce the miraculous. I am thinking of the way the intangible air traveled at speed round a shaped wing easily holds our weight. So may we, […]

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Singing Bowl

Malcolm Guite   Begin the song exactly where you are. Remain within the world of which you’re made. Call nothing common in the earth or air. Accept it all and let it be for good. Start with the very breath you breathe in now, This moment’s pulse, this rhythm in your blood And listen to […]

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So Much Happiness

Naomi Shihab Nye   It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to rub against, A wound to tend with lotion and cloth. When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up, Something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or […]

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The Ponds

Mary Oliver   Every year the lilies are so perfect I can hardly believe their lapped light crowding the black, mid-summer ponds. Nobody could count all of them — the muskrats swimming among the pads and the grasses can reach out their muscular arms and touch only so many, they are that rife and wild. […]

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Prayer for the New Year

by Kayleen Asbo May I open my heart to what wishes to be born in the coming year, Neither clinging to what has been, Nor grasping too quickly what is to come. Rather, may I have the presence –here, now, always– to inhabit my breath and body in each fleeting moment I am given, to […]

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Awareness Knowing Itself 

Danna Faulds   Settle in the here and now. Reach down into the center where the world is not spinning and drink this holy peace. Feel relief flood into every cell. Nothing to do. Nothing to be but what you are already. Nothing to receive but what flows effortlessly from the mystery into form. Nothing […]

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Joy

Donna Ashworth   Joy does not arrive with a fanfare, on a red carpet strewn with the flowers of a perfect life. Joy sneaks in, as you pour a cup of coffee, watching the sun hit your favourite tree, just right. And you usher joy away, because you are not ready for it. Your house […]