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Today’s Poem: here’s to opening and upward by e. e. cummings

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here’s to opening and upward

e. e. cummings

here’s to opening and upward, to leaf and to sap
and to your(in my arms flowering so new)
self whose eyes smell of the sound of rain

and here’s to silent certainly mountains;and to
a disappearing poet of always,snow
and to morning;and to morning’s beautiful friend
twilight(and a first dream called ocean)and

let must or if be damned with whomever’s afraid
down with ought with because with every brain
which thinks it thinks,nor dares to feel(but up
with joy;and up with laughing and drunkenness)

here’s to one undiscoverable guess
of whose mad skill each world of blood is made
(whose fatal songs are moving in the moon

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Today’s Poem: I Am Gentle With You by Halina Poswiatowska

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I Am Gentle With You

Halina Poswiatowska

I am gentle with you
as with bees
the sharp smell of flowers
I am kind to you
as to the bird’s tired wings
a swinging branch
as gold
I fall on your lids
with a smile
I chase away thoughts – stinging wasps
this night
has given you to me
the vast night
with my hair strewn in disorder over canvass
you are
clear like the moon
you shine
in my cold sky
I pray to you
what religion is this
where they worship the lips
of the curved god of dawns
ah religion
magnificent blasphemers
we are to one another
a closed four-cornered world

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Today’s Quote: Beauty & Wonder Surround Us

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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful – an endless prospect of magic and wonder. ~ Ansel Adams

Today’s Poem: And Thou Art One by Pat O’Cotter

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And Thou Art One

Pat O’Cotter

And Thou art One–One with th’ eternal hills,
And with the flaming stars, and with the moon,
Translucent, cold. The sentinel of noon
That clothes the sky in robes of light and fills
The earth with warmth, the flowering fields, the rills,
The waving trees, the south wind’s elfin rune,
Are One with Thee. All nature is in tune
With Thee, O Father, God–and if one wills
To humbly walk the fragrant, leaf-strewn path
And kneel in reverence ‘neath the vaulted sky,
Hearing the hymnals of the waving trees
And prayers of the soughing winds–what hath
He less of heaven in him than we, who cry,
“God in our creeds doth dwell and not in these?”

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Today’s Poem: Greenness by Angela Weld Grimke

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Greenness

Angela Weld Grimke

Tell me is there anything lovelier, 
Anything more quieting 
Than the green of little blades of grass 
And the green of little leaves?  

Is not each leaf a cool green hand, 
Is not each blade of grass a mothering green finger, 
Hushing the heart that beats and beats and beats?

Today’s Quote: A New Dawn Brings New Hope

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There is a day of sunny rest
For every dark and troubled night;
And grief may hide an evening guest,
But joy shall come with early light. ~ William C. Bryant

Today’s Poem: Come In by Robert Frost

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Come In

Robert Frost

As I came to the edge of the woods,
Thrush music — hark!
Now if it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.

Too dark in the woods for a bird
By sleight of wing
To better its perch for the night,
Though it still could sing.

The last of the light of the sun
That had died in the west
Still lived for one song more
In a thrush’s breast.

Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music went —
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.

But no, I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn’t been.

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Today’s Poem: A Star by Patrick Kavanagh

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A Star

Patrick Kavanagh

Beauty was that
    Far vanished flame,
    Call it a star
    Wanting better name.

    And gaze and gaze
    Vaguely until
    Nothing is left
    Save a grey ghost-hill.

    Here wait I
    On the world’s rim
    Stretching out hands
    To Seraphim.

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Today’s Poem: An Aspiration by Robert Crawford

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An Aspiration

Robert Crawford

Music, with the tears in it,
Through my soul is ringing,
Moods like bodies flame and flit
Through the spirit’s singing;
Dream-birds half-articulate,
Which no charms can capture,
Come by twos and nest and mate
In a moment’s rapture.
Now I seem to be upborne
On a starry pinion
Where the poet’s hope forlorn
Has divine dominion —
Where he sees the clouds of earth
Gather light and cluster,
As babes on the dawn of Birth
Watch the visions muster!
All that thought and feeling share
In a soul’s possession
To my singing seems to bear
A divine confession;
As within my dreaming brain
Lips of inspiration
Breathe the beauty gone again
On a new creation.

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Today’s Inspiring Quote: A Path for Living

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. ~ Albert Einstein

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