Poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer: Unapologetic
Oh the water lilies. See how they seem
to open wider out of their own opening?
Let me unfold like that—without thinking,
without assuming I’m already open enough.
poetry by others
Poem by Alison Luterman
Consider the Generosity of a One-Year-Old who has no words to exchange with you yet, and instead offers up her favorite drooled-on blanket, her green rhinoceros as big as she is, her cloth doll with the long blonde pigtails, her battered cardboard books, swung open on their soggy pages, her limitless heart.
Poem by Galway Kinnell: St. Francis and the Sow
The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
Poem by Mary Oliver: The Summer Day
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
Make the Ordinary Come Alive
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is a way of foolishness.
A Poem by Dawna Markova
I choose to risk my significance,
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom,
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
Poems Hide
I’ll tell you a secret: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them. Naomi Shihab Nye
Jobina’s Haiku
Here are some haiku by my friend Jobina (Check out her blog here)… Life is not just mine. It’s all about how Love does shine – through all, for All. Confusion, mayhem upheaval … ‘til dove alights, peace breaks, love wakens. Lost in my own trap, I think I’m done, zoned out, gone …. then … Read more
Poem by Leslea Newman
Secret Sometimes when the morning sun streams through the kitchen window and I’m washing the dishes or opening a can of cat food or sweeping potato peels and onion skins off the linoleum floor, I get so taken with the way my arms move back and forth with the broom or how pretty my … Read more
Short Poem by Lao-Tzu
Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is