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People. Love Them Anyway

By: admin | Date: October 10, 2023 | Categories: poetry

From Calvin Miller… People are unreasonable,illogical and self-centered.Love them anyway. If you do good, people willaccuse you of ulterior motives.Do good anyway. If you are successful, you winfalse friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway. The good you do todaywill be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway. Honesty and franknessmake you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend […]

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Late Fragment

By: admin | Date: August 8, 2023 | Categories: poetry

And did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth. Raymond Carver [1938-1988] was an American short-story writer and poet

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This Marriage

By: admin | Date: February 27, 2021 | Categories: poetry

This Marriage By Rumi May these vows and this marriage be blessed. May it be sweet milk, this marriage, like wine and confection. May this marriage offer fruit and shade like the date palm. May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day a day in paradise. May this marriage be a sign of […]

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Scaffolding

By: admin | Date: | Categories: poetry

“Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney Written by one of the most celebrated Irish poets, these words speak to the unbreakable bonds of love. Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding; Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints. And yet all this […]

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If – Rudyard Kipling

By: admin | Date: March 24, 2020 | Categories: poetry

“IF” “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, […]

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The Impermanence We Are

By: admin | Date: January 29, 2018 | Categories: poetry

  It seems our own impermanence is concealed from us. The trees stand firm, the houses we live in are still there. We alone flow past it all, an exchange of air. Everything conspires to silence us, partly with shame, partly with unspeakable hope. Rilke, From the Second Duino Elegy

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FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD

By: admin | Date: November 29, 2015 | Categories: poetry

When all is done, the hell of hells, the torment of torments, is the everlasting absence of God, and the everlasting impossibility of returning to his presence; sayes the Apostle, it is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Yet there was a case, in which David found an ease, […]

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Leap Before You Look

By: admin | Date: September 7, 2015 | Categories: poetry

W. H. Auden described in his famous poem “Leap Before You Look”: The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep And break the by-laws any […]

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In his masterpiece, My Bright Abyss, the poet Christian Wiman writes, In any true love— a mother’s for her child, a husband’s for his wife, a friend’s for a friend— there is an excess energy that always wants to be in motion. Moreover, it seems to move not simply from one person to another but […]

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