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I Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver

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I Don’t Want To Live A Small Life: Poetry by Mary Oliver

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I don’t want to live a small life. Open your eyes, open your hands.   I have just come from the berry fields, the sun kissing me with its golden mouth all the way (open your hands) and the wind-winged clouds following along thinking perhaps I might feed them, but no I carry these heart-shapes only to you. Look […]

Let Me Be: Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice

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Let Me Be: Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice

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Poetry For Celebrating Summer Solstice 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.   Do not let me close up, all stiff and stoic, like a walnut that will not crack. Don’t let me become […]

The Gods Are Here, In This Almost Empty Nest

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The Gods Are Here, In This Almost Empty Nest

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“The Gods Are Here” This is no mountain But a house, No rock of solitude But a family chair, No wilds But life appearing As life anywhere domesticated, Yet I know the gods are here, And that if I touch them I will arise And take majesty into the kitchen.” ― Jean Toomer The Gods […]

Wherever You Are Is Called Here: Poetry from David Wagoner

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Wherever You Are Is Called Here: Poetry from David Wagoner

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Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may […]

It’s Poetry Month! Writing, Reading, Teaching and Sharing Poetry

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It’s Poetry Month! Writing, Reading, Teaching and Sharing Poetry

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True confession: I haven’t always been a poetry lover. When I was younger I collected poems, intrigued by the connection I felt with a complete stranger’s expression of my emotions. I copied poem after poem into spiral notebooks, savoring every word. And in college, I fell in love with Blake and Dickinson and Maya Angelou […]