Beloved Is Where We Begin – Jan Richardson
https://intrinsicheart.com/beloved-is-where-we-begin/
How the Rose Works – Cassie Premo Steele
(Not found online – from the book Serenity Prayers: Prayers, Poems, and Prose to Soothe Your Soul edited by June Cotner. Cassie Premo Steele’s web page is https://www.cassiepremosteele.com/ )
Desire – Alice Walker
https://alicewalkersgarden.com/2011/02/desire/
The Lake Isle of Innisfree – William Butler Yeats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLlcvQg9i6c (William Butler Yeats reads the poem)
On the Day When Death Will Knock at Your Door – Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Poem 90 and following.
For the full text of Gitanjali, go to: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7164/pg7164-images.html
Thou Hast Made Me Endless – Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Poem 1
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7164/pg7164-images.html
The Journey – David Whyte
https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/08/13/the-journey-by-david-whyte/
One Song – Jalaluddin Rumi
https://pollycastor.com/2016/01/22/poem-by-rumi-one-song/
A Pint of Light – John Glenday
http://www.dawngorman.co.uk/words_and_ears_competition_poem.php?id=2
The Treasure – Robinson Jeffers
https://poets.org/poem/treasure?mc_cid=2e203d438c
Quote from Robinson Jeffers: “The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”
The Difference Between Prose and Poetry – Howard Nemerov
https://intrinsicheart.com/behind-the-lines-the-portal-of-poetry/ (Scroll down to find the poem)
My Secret Heart – Jan Richardson
https://paintedprayerbook.com/2012/03/22/day-26-my-secret-heart/
Photo of Innisfree Island from the Yeats Trail website: https://www.yeatstrail.ie/innisfree/
