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Excerpt from St. Francis and the Sow, by Galway Kinnell
The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on its brow
of the flower
and retell it in words and in touch
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing
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Selections for Further Reading:
“Not One Day in Anyone’s Life” – Dean Koontz
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1775449-from-the-corner-of-his-eye
“The Raincoat” – Ada Limón
https://poets.org/poem/raincoat
“Continue” – Maya Angelou
https://intrinsicheart.com/continue/
“St. Francis and the Sow” – Galway Kinnell
https://www.debsherrer.com/galway-kinnell-poem-excerpt/ [Excerpt]
“Shoulders” – Naomi Shihab Nye
https://poets.org/poem/shoulders
“While Love Is Unfashionable” – Alice Walker
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/09/alice-walker-while-love-is-unfashionable.html
“If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking” – Emily Dickinson
https://dailypoetry.me/emily-dickinson/if-stop-heart-breaking/
“Kindness” – Naomi Shihab Nye
https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=735
