Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every … [Read more...]
Poetry: The Merton Prayer
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually … [Read more...]
Poetry: Amanda Gorman’s Believer’s Battle Hymn for the Repulic
3:47 - don't forget to unmute video in lower right-hand corner 4th of July Flashback! Don't miss this Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular where Amanda Gorman delivers this dynamic performance of her poem “Believer’s Hymn for the Republic.” Believer's … [Read more...]
Poetry: Can This Be Paradise? Reznikoff
As I was wandering with my unhappy thoughts, I looked and saw that I had come into a sunny place— familiar and yet strange. "Where am I?" I asked a stranger. "Paradise." "Can this be Paradise?" I asked, surprised, for there were motor … [Read more...]
Poem: I am an American
I owe you no apologies, nor will I accept those apologies made for me by others. If you dislike me, you dislike me not for what I am, but for what you are not. By my own sweat I have created a lifestyle which I desire for all men. To the world, … [Read more...]
Prayer: Run, Ullie-Kay
dear child. you will need to stop running in order to feel the silence, and you will need to feel the silence in order to face the fear. and you will need to face the fear in order to undo its grip in order to run. but darling, run freely, not away. … [Read more...]
Poetry: Reason, Season, Lifetime Poem
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person. When someone is in your life for a reason it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They … [Read more...]
Poetry: Hate is a Virus, Gorman
A virus is fought inside us. While violence is fought among us. In both, our triumph is not in conquering others, But conquering the most destructive agents &instincts that we carry Within our mortal forms. Hate is a virus. A … [Read more...]
Poem: Train of Life, Hardin
Some folks ride the train of life Looking out the rear, Watching miles of life roll by, And marking every year. They sit in sad remembrance, Of wasted days gone by, And curse their life for what it was, And hang their head and cry. But I … [Read more...]
Poetry: Being Human
When we peel away the elements that divide us, religion (man-made), skin color, ethnicities, politics, we end up where we started. Being human. When we acknowledge each other as fellow human beings instead of our self-imposed … [Read more...]