poetry by others
You Reading This, Be Ready (Poem by William Stafford)
What can anyone give you greater than now,
starting here, right in this room, when you turn around?
The Work of Happiness (Poem by May Sarton)
I thought of happiness how it is woven out of the silence in the empty house each day…
Ring Out, Wild Bells (Alfred Lord Tennyson Poem)
Ring in the new year with this prescient, old poem published in 1850.
The Patience of Ordinary Things (Poem by Pat Schneider)
Things wait so patiently. Have you ever appreciated that?
Silver (Poem by Jeannette Encinias)
This poem highlights the agelessness of beauty, and that progress and experience only amplify it..
Day Off (Poem by Mary Oliver)
Sometimes you just need to be still, take a day off, and let the world go buzzing on around you.
Rejection (Poem by Veronica R. Goines)
Man’s rejection is God’s protection… this is such an important point. Paintings by me.
For God is All-in-All (poem by Ethel Margaret Soden)
No evil can touch me; no harm can befall,
for He is my Father, my Mother,—my All.
Mysteries (Poem by Mary Oliver)
Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Invisible Work (Poem by Alison Luterman)
…but the unseen
unbelievable effort it takes to live
the life that goes on between them,
I think all the time about invisible work.
Some Glad Morning (Poem by Joyce Sutphen with Photos)
– Some Glad Morning One day, something very old happened again. The green came back to the branches, settling like leafy birds on the highest twigs; the ground broke open as dark as coffee beans. The clouds took up their positions in the deep stadium of the sky, gloving the bright orb of the sun … Read more
Anchored Amidst the Tides (Poem by Jennifer Welwood)
Know the silence that lives
At the depth of all things…
A Light Exists in Spring (poem by Emily Dickonson)
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here