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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Choice (poem) by Lynn Ungar
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There isn’t a right answer. There just isn’t. The game show where the bells ring and the points go up and the confetti falls because you got...
Monday, December 05, 2016
Love After Love - Derek Walcott
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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the o...
"Saint Francis and the Sow" (poem) by Galway Kinnell
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The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; tho...
The Soul's Desert - Robinson Jeffers
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They are warming up the old horrors, and all that they say is echoes of echoes. Beware of taking sides; only watch. These are not cri...
Cottonwoods (poem) by Lynn Ungar
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The cottonwoods are flinging themselves outward, filling the air with spiraling flurries, covering lawns in deepening drifts. You could ...
"Blessing the Bread" (poem) by Lynn Ungar
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Surely the earth is heavy with this rhythm, the stretch and pull of bread, the folding in and folding in across the palms, as if the li...
Boundaries (poem) by Lynn Ungar
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The universe does not revolve around you. The stars and planets spinning through the ballroom of space dance with one another quite out...
One Art - Elizabeth Bishop
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The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lo...
Paula Becker to Clara Westhoff (poem) by Adrienne Rich
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The autumn feels slowed down, summer still holds on here, even the light seems to last longer than it should or maybe I'm using it to th...
From an Atlas of the Difficult World (Poem) by Adrienne Rich
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I know you are reading this poem late, before leaving your office of the one intense yellow lamp-spot and the darkening window in the las...
Fast Gas By DORIANNE LAUX
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Related Poem Content Details for Richard Before the days of self service, when you never had to pump your own gas,...
Friday, December 02, 2016
Post-Rodham Depression
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Donald Trump was elected America's president. Donald the dumb, the racist, the sexist, the king bloviator, the tantrum totalitarian. I...
Sunday, June 05, 2016
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Within the past two weeks, I seem to have hit my limit as a professional and then today as a mother. Having taken on a task that posed so m...
Friday, December 11, 2015
Honesty Is the Wildness of the Sea -- V.B. Price
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(excerpted and transcribed from this reading ) Only you, for me – The warmth of your mind, The breezes your courage attracts – Only...
Saturday, September 05, 2015
Gospel Salt - Andrea Gibson
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Sometimes I get so nervous when I speak I can feel my heartbeat in my tongue. And my heartbeat talks faster than an auctioneer, but ...
Friday, September 04, 2015
What Albuquerque needs to do... Since 1993
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V.B. Price: City at the End of the World on Colores In an over-urbanized world, in which over half the population lives in cities, if a ...
Sunday, August 09, 2015
Some things will never change - Thomas Wolfe
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Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen. The voice of forest water ...
My help is in the mountain - Nancy Wood
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My help is in the mountain Where I take myself to heal The earthly wounds That people give to me. I find a rock with sun on it And a stream ...
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i thank you god for this most amazing - ee cummings
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i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything w...
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Russian Roulette, Indian Style
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Sara Littlecrow-Russell Russian Roulette Indian style, Is the spinning cylinder Of a 500-year-old gun With 5 out of 6 chambers...
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