Reads tagged with “poetry”
Being an Earth Ecstatic: Poet Diane Ackerman on the Spirituality of Wonder Without Religion
Branchings of belief from the lovely common root of “holy” and “whole” in the interleaving of all things.
Our Need for Each Other and Our Need for Our Selves: Muriel Rukeyser on Our Source of Strength in Times of Turmoil
“In time of struggle… all people think about love.”
The Lost Spells: A Rewilding of the Human Heart in a Lyrical Illustrated Invocation of Nature
From the owl to the oak, a painted benediction of the wild world.
Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
“The past, the future, majesty, love — if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.”
Trees, Stars, and the Wonder of Being Human: Astronomer Natalie Batalha Reads Dylan Thomas’s Cosmic Serenade to What We Are
“Children in wonder watching the stars, is the aim and the end.”
On the Beach Alone at Night: Meshell Ndegeocello Reads Walt Whitman’s Ode to the Interconnectedness of Life
A song of praise for “all souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different… all nations, colors… all identities that have existed or may exist… all lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future.”
As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse: Billy Collins’s Delightful Ode to Gratitude
…with a funny and poignant meditation on the personal gravity of gratitude and why being grateful is “one of the most powerful things that any one person can do.”
The Twin Root of Our Confusion and Our Power in Times of Turmoil: Muriel Rukeyser on the Wellspring of Aliveness
“Whatever has happened, whatever is going to happen in the world, it is the living moment that contains the sum of the excitement, this moment in which we touch life and all the energy of the past and future.”
To Believe in Things: Poet Joseph Pintauro’s Lost Love Poem to Life, Illustrated by the Radical Nun and Visionary Artist Sister Corita Kent
“You are not everything but everything could not be everything without you.”
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