A few lines from "To Begin With, The Sweet Grass" by May Oliver:

"Look, and look again.
This world is not just a little thrill for the eyes."

https://www.tumblr.com/apoemaday/640585600055099392/to-begin-with-the-sweet-grass #PoetryOfPresence #poems #poetry #EarthDay #EarthDayEveryDay #MaryOliver

From "Care" by Craig Santos Perez:

"To all the parents who brave the crossing: you and your
children matter. I hope your love will teach the nations

that emit the most carbon and violence that they should,
instead, remit the most compassion."

https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/care-craig-santos-perez/ #immigrant #refugee #poetry #poems #PoetryOfPresence #care #compassion #children #fatherhood

On #VerseThursday celebrate "Big Joy" with James Broughton's poem "Easter Exultet". A few lines:

"Shake out your qualms.
Shake up your dreams.
Extend your branches.
Trust deep water
and head for open water,
even if your vision
shipwrecks you."

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/04/james-broughton-easter-exultet.html?m=0

#poetry #poem #PoetryOfPresence #BigJoy

It's not #VerseThursday yet but I don't know why I'd wait to share a poem that moved me.
"Planet" by Catherine Pierce
"I’m ashamed

to say that most days I forget this planet. That most days

I think about dentist appointments and plagiarists

and the various ways I can try to protect my body from itself."

https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2018/12/31/planet-catherine-pierce/ #PoetryOfPresence #poem #poetry #climatecrisis #ecosystems #environment #CatherinePierce

I can't read this aloud without tearing up in the last stanza. CW violence in first stanza. It rises from there.

"Testimony" (for my daughters) by Rebecca Baggett https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/03/rebecca-baggett-testimony.html

#PoetryOfPresence #poetry #poem #hope #PayAttention #environment #RebeccaBaggett

Phyllis Cole-Dai posted a mindfulness poem every day for 3 years; I've been making my way through reading the poems for each date for well over a year and am coming around again. Wonderful choices, and the site led to the anthology Poetry of Presence, which I recommend.
Today's selections:

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2013/03/larry-schug-mending-mittens.html

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2014/03/marie-howe-moment.html

https://www.ayearofbeinghere.com/2015/03/jalal-ad-din-muhammad-rumi-untitled.html

#poetry #VerseThursday #PhyllisColeDai #mindfulness #books #PoetryOfPresence