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April 2023 Readings

by Shanti Natania Grace
April 23, 2023
in Poetry & More, Spiritual Poetry Meetup Readings

Sea Fever – John Masefield
https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/online-poetry/poems/sea-fever#

Some Questions You Might Ask – Mary Oliver
https://www.poeticous.com/mary-oliver/some-questions-you-might-ask

Some Say You’re Lucky – Gregory Orr
https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2021/03/gregory-orr-some-say-youre-lucky.html

Who Says Words with My Mouth – Jalaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
https://intrinsicheart.com/who-says-words-with-my-mouth/

Buddha’s Teaching – Izumi Shikibu
https://dippingintolight.com/shikibu-izumi-976/ (scroll down for this poem and more by Izumi Shikibu)

Breathe your way beneath your troubles – Quote from Mark Nepo
https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/quotes/quotations/view/33281/spiritual-quotation

Easter Wings – George Herbert
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44361/easter-wings

Awakened – Czeslaw Milosz  https://mbird.com/poetry/awakened-czeslaw-milosz

You Start Dying Slowly – Martha Medeiros
https://7minutesonline.com/2017/03/13/you-start-dying-slowly-poem-by-martha-medeiros/

Packing Up for Paradise – James Broughton
https://intrinsicheart.com/packing-up-for-paradise/

Easter Exultet – James Broughton
https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/04/james-broughton-easter-exultet.html

Painting by John Clinton Ogilvie; Ship ‘British Merchant’ Leaving Aberdeen; Aberdeen Maritime Museum;
http://www.artuk.org/artworks/ship-british-merchant-leaving-aberdeen-106141

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