Remember – Joy Harjo
https://intrinsicheart.com/remember/
Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh – “I have lost my smile, but don’t worry, the dandelion has it.”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/782115-i-have-lost-my-smile-but-don-t-worry-the-dandelion
Annunciation – Marie Howe
https://www.best-poems.net/marie-howe/annunciation.html
We Travelers (Sabbaths 1999 VI) – Wendell Berry
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9931004-we-travelers-walking-to-the-sun-can-t-see-ahead-but
After the Massacre on October 7th – Laurie Ledy (This poem is not available online.)
There Was a Time – Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2019/06/celebrating-poet-laureate-joy-harjo.html
I Have Seen My Beloved – Niaz Birelvi
http://sufipoetry.blogspot.com/2009/06/yaar-ko-humne-ja-ba-ja-dekha-kalaam.html
(The exact translation that was read was not found online; there are several alternate translations. A video sung in Persian is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGNXTnyHlwM )
Quote from Stephen Jay Gould, quoted in Keeping the Faith Without a Religion, by Roger Housden: “Good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to one. The tragedy of human history lies in the enormous potential for destruction in rare acts of evil, not in the high frequency of evil people. Complex systems can only be built step by step, whereas destruction requires but an instant. Thus, in what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoticed and invisible as the ‘ordinary’ efforts of a vast majority.” —Stephen Jay Gould in The New York Times, 9/26/2001.
The Great Adventure – Judith Ina Bloch (This poem is not available online.)
“Nature” Is What We See – Emily Dickinson
https://allpoetry.com/Nature-is-what-we-see
First Polar Bear – Victor Charlo
https://www.facebook.com/polarbeartours/posts/the-salish-poet-and-spiritual-chief-vic-charlo-came-on-one-of-our-polar-bear-tri/240206386073094/
Primary Wonder – Denise Levertov
https://intrinsicheart.com/primary-wonder/
Eagle Poem – Joy Harjo
https://intrinsicheart.com/eagle-poem/
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