Today's poem:

Mediterranean Blue
- by Naomi Shahib Nye

https://poets.org/poem/mediterranean-blue

#meditteranean #sea #exile #refugee #fear #hope #war #NaomiShihabNye #family #love

No Explosions

by Naomi Shihab Nye

To enjoy
fireworks
you would have
to have lived
a different kind
of life.

#NaomiShihabNye #Poetry #fireworks

@TexasObserver

I LOVE LOVE 💕 #NaomiShihabNye 💕

why have we given the wrong weight to what we do?

For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15
Naomi Shihab Nye

#Poetry #NaomiShihabNye #Gaza

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/06/saturday-poem-351.html

“Tell them you have a new project. It will never be finished.”

*chef’s kiss*

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Simply Do
"I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do." — Naomi Shihab Nye (with a nod to @MayaCPopa for showing the way)

Fame is overrated, contribution is where it's at. We are utilitarian at the root of it, here to be productiv
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/02/01/simply-do/
#Poetry #Art #Habits #PersonalGrowth #Productivity #Writing #MayaCPopa #NaomiShihabNye #Philosophy

What to Do With Our Time
you will never catch up.Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second.Then decide what to do with your time.― Naomi Shihab Nye, The Art of Disappearing

I've fallen in love with the bullet journal again. It's not so much because of a love of organization, it's more a need for organization that dra
https://alexandersmap.com/2023/01/27/what-to-do-with-our-time/
#Habits #Lifestyle #PersonalGrowth #Poetry #Productivity #Writing #NaomiShihabNye

I had posted this to my site a few years back (just before the pandemic arrived, apparently). But poetry of this sort never ages except for the better.

Hope you like it as much as I do.

#poetry #NaomiShihabNye #kindness

https://bdcabrera.com/kindness-poem/

A hope, and a reminder of who we can be, for the new year: Gate A-4 by Naomi Shihab Nye https://poets.org/poem/gate-4

#NaomiShihabNye #ArabAmerican #Palestinian #Poetry #Love

“I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.”

(3/3)

#poetry #poem #naomishihabnye #famous

“The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.”

(2/3)

#poetry #poem #naomishihabnye #famous

‘Famous’ by Naomi Shihab Nye

“The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.”

(1/3)

#poetry #poem #naomishihabnye #famous