During times of crisis when the world is soaked in grief, waves of sadness touch us as we yearn for what has been lost. When in the middle of grief, it helps to know that we are not alone. We find comfort knowing that others have been there and survived to tell about it. W. …Read More
Category: Poem
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night ~ Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953) achieved popularity in his lifetime as a drunken ill-fated lost poet, a reputation that he encouraged, until his early death at 39 years old. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, perhaps his most famous poem, calls forth the tenacity of the human spirit. Do Not Go Gentle Into …Read More
The day the solar system broke ~ Fatimah Asghar
Today, most of us know what it is like for the world as we know it to shift. You wake up one day, and it’s nothing like yesterday and nothing like any of the tomorrows that you had envisioned. Perhaps, even your place in the world has changed. In 2006, scientists decided that Pluto was …Read More
Like light, we can’t be broken ~ Amanda Gorman
Amid times of crisis, inaugural American youth poet laureate delivers words of comfort and hope. With the powerful conviction of her voice, she recites one of her poems from the Los Angeles Central Public Library. “The question is not if we will we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather this unknown together…. …Read More
One Today ~ Richard Blanco
One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. …. We head …Read More
Still I Rise ~ Maya Angelou
Still I Rise ~ by Maya Angelou You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wellsPumping in my living room. Just like moons and …Read More
When love calls us to be present ~ Djuna Barnes
Serenade ~ by Djuna Barnes – 1892-1982 Three paces down the shore, low sounds the lute, The better that my longing you may know; I’m not asking you to come, But—can’t you go? Three words, “I love you,” and the whole is said— The greatness of it throbs from sun to sun; I’m not asking …Read More
Holidays ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Holidays by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The holiest of all holidays are thoseKept by ourselves in silence and apart;The secret anniversaries of the heart,When the full river of feeling overflows;–The happy days unclouded to their close;The sudden joys that out of darkness startAs flames from ashes; swift desires that dartLike swallows singing down each wind that blows!White …Read More
Character of the Happy Warrior ~ William Wordsworth
Character of the Happy Warrior ~ by William Wordsworth Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? —It is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavours are an …Read More
Thanksgiving Day Blessings
God is good.God is great.Let us thank him for our food.Amen. I grew up with this children’s prayer to bless the food that I ate. It’s short and easy to remember. Today, I remember those moments of grace. We joined hands as a family, took a moment out of time to be grateful, and asked …Read More