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Accepting This

Mark Nepo   Yes, it is true. I confess, I have thought great thoughts, and sung great songs—all of it rehearsal for the majesty of being held.   The dream is awakened when thinking I love you and life begins when saying I love you and joy moves like blood when embracing others with love. […]

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When Giving Is All We Have

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 […]

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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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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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Let Love Go

Jeff Foster   Forget about transcending the body. Love it instead.   Let go of the idea of ‘letting go’. Instead, let love go deep into the tender places, the parts that ache. Inhale into your sadness. Let your fear move deep within you. Bow to your uncertainty.   There is an untouchable place in […]

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Wild Geese

Mary Oliver   You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— over and over announcing your place in the family of things. 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 […]

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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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The Facts of Life

Pádraig Ó Tuama   That you were born and you will die. That you will sometimes love enough and sometimes not. That you will lie if only to yourself. That you will get tired. That you will learn most from the situations you did not choose. That there will be some things that move you […]

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Send Love, It Matters

Carrie Newcomer   Somewhere someone needs help. Send love. It matters. If you can’t get there yourself, then take a deep breath. Breathe in the weight of their troubles. Breathe out and send all those burdens into the Light where sorrows can be held with the most tender and infinite grace. Breathe in what you […]

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Below Our Strangenes

Mark Nepo   My soul tells me, we were all broken from the same name — less heart, and every living thing wakes with a piece of that original heart aching its way into blossom. This is why we know each other below our strangeness, why when we fall, we lift each other, or when […]

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The Thing Is

Ellen Bass   to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills […]

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Falling In

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   Again today I rest my hand above my heart and feel how naturally the body softens, how simple it is in this moment to forgive myself for thinking I should be anything but what I am. Hello air that fills this body. Hello life that pulses through. Hello mystery of gentling. […]

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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 you […]

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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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Admit

David Whyte   Admit, your distant love affair is with yourself, and that no one can play harder to get: the unwritten letters, the plays for time, the heartbreak over never being properly answered. That coy look of false seduction in the mirror, or that hard look to hide what should not be hidden. The […]

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Unity

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   Today we lose the words yours and mine and find in their absence a song that can only be sung together. How did we ever think we could attempt this humanness alone? To the table of love, we bring soup, bring cherries, bring the bread of our own sweet communion. We […]

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Of Tenderness

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer   So easily the thin rind pulls away from the Clementine to reveal what is soft, what is sweet. It matters, I think, the way we offer ourselves to each other. I think of how it falls open, the peel of the ripe clementine. I think of how sometimes, when I ask […]

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Amidah Gift September 4, 2020

Leiah Bowden Let me hear your voice again do not stop this rish-rushing of your breath.   Sigh and sigh again, the inbreath and outbreath of my own life.   Raise your arms to embrace me, your holy wind moving every leaf on every tree every cloud surrounding this world that I may feel the thundering […]

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Admit

David Whyte Admit, your distant love affair is with yourself, and that no one can play harder to get: the unwritten letters, the plays for time, the heartbreak over never being properly answered. That coy look of false seduction in the mirror, or that hard look to hide what should not be hidden. The invitation […]