The Best Poem Ever – Brian Doyle.
https://mollystrongheart.blogspot.com/2023/10/brian-doyle-best-poem-ever.html
Dear Heart – Jalaluddin Rumi (translated by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7778124-dear-heart-you-are-so-unreasonable-first-you-fall-in
“Poetry” – Al Nashashibi
(This poem is not available online)
Remember How They Loved You – Donna Ashworth
https://donnaashworth.com/on-those-days/
Awakening (aka “Stubborn Resistance”) – Chelan Harkin
https://www.mindfulnessassociation.net/words-of-wonder/stubborn-resistance-chelan-harkin/
Great Moth Comes from His Papery Cage – Mary Oliver
https://yearsrisingmaryoliver.blogspot.com/2010/09/great-moth-comes-from-his-papery-cage.html
There Was a Door – Omar Khayyam (translated by Edward Fitzgerald; also by Esmael)
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/K/KhayyamOmar/32Therewasa/index.html
Love Whatever Arises – Matt Kahn and Julie Dittmar
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59ff0984a8b2b0625b1df9a9/t/5d77ba400063b052e9df3305/1568127552473/Love%2BWhatever%2BArises-Poem.pdf
Unison Benediction – May Sarton
https://intrinsicheart.com/unison-benediction/
I Worried – Mary Oliver
https://cheerfulmonk.com/2024/10/05/i-worried/