A Singing Voice—Kenneth Rexroth https://gladdestthing.com/poems/a-singing-voice
What We Need Is Here—Wendell Berry https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=2144
Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale—Dan Albergotti
https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=5931.html
Close the Language Door and Open the Love Window—Rumi
http://rumidays.blogspot.com/2011/03/there-is-some-kiss-we-want.html
Whatever We Wear—Fukuda Chiyo-ni https://www.ottmarliebert.com/diary/?p=3368
Learned from a Rainstorm—Yamamoto Tsunetomo
https://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2011/10/learned-from-rainstorm.html
The Uses of Sorrow—Mary Oliver
https://wordsfortheyear.com/2016/12/31/the-uses-of-sorrow-by-mary-oliver/
Love in Dreams (excerpt)—Arthur Symons https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_text.html?TextId=39673
The Meaning of Love (excerpt)—Baul song
With references to Maya Angelou, Wallace Stevens, Viktor Frankl, JW Hackett, Sylvia Plath, Thomas Moore, Robert Bly, William Osler.