Poetry & More

Today The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays come down. A tomorrow has come. Open your...

Four Quartets, East Coker (excerpt) I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be...

All the Words All the words have leaped into air like the cards in Alice, like birds flying, forming, re-...

One day I am sitting in my old body at my old desk reading young essays — essays sent to...

COURAGE Courage is the price which life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release...

Roots – Lucille Clifton https://intrinsicheart.com/roots/ The Burning Bush – Jericho Brown https://www.everseradio.com/the-burning-bush-by-jericho-brown/ The Infinite – Giacomo Leopardi  (translated from the...

Listening My father could hear a little animal step, or a moth in the dark against the screen, and every...

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the...

If you haven't already found Andrea Gibson and their magnificent heart-opening poetry, you've been missing something truly wonderful.  Here is...

With loving gratitude to Coleman Barks, whose translations of Rumi brought the spiritual light of Jalal al-Din Rumi to the...