The world is calling—soft, persistent. Can you hear it?
To be here is no small thing.
To stay, to listen, to receive what’s tender—maybe that’s the beginning.

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Pieces of sanity
Wash ashore
Even on the stormiest days
Each day
Before it passes
Will offer some jewelled fragment
To calm us
And resist the tempest
Blowing our way

©Alan j Wright
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Walking Poems “Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” –Steven Wright Walking comes up so often in poems it’s nearly a cliché. Poems inspired by taking a walk. Poems about t…

A collection of poems about walking: bikestylelife.com/2023/10/12/w....

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Trapped in speed—work, traffic, tension, repeat.
But what if we paused?
This poem is a breath in the rush.
Not a race. A return.
To presence.
To self.
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March Delights Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

Captured thoughts on March delights in my life, which are there even through all the what's-is exploding around us. biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2025/03/marc...

#March #poetry #poems #poem #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #dandelions #flowers #spring #grateful #PoetryOfPresence #ThichNhatHanh

Joy Harjo: "Remember" A collection of daily mindfulness poems, composed primarily by contemporary and recent poets of the here & now.

Excerpt from "Remember" by Joy Harjo:

"Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth."
www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/11/joy-...

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“The black whole of love swallows me... / ... A doorway into myself that I chose / To open to the infinite. I sit, hands folded, / Calling to God, from a great distance.” - Trina Ganyon, “The Whole of It” in Presence 2024. #PoetryofPresence #CatholicPoetryJournal #Poetry