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Tag: Lifesaving Poems

A holiness to exhaustion

First There is a holiness to exhaustion is what I keep telling myself, filling out the form so my TA … More

Carrie Fountain, Exhaustion, Grief, James Schuyler, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

Ourselves again

Tollund That Sunday morning we had travelled far. We stood a long time out in Tollund Moss: The low ground, … More

Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, Tollund, US Election 2020, US Politics

Be kind

Be Kind Not merely because Henry James saidthere were but four rules of life—be kind be kind be kind be … More

Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Michael Blumenthal, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, US Election 2020

You’ve got to write it all down

The unexamined life’s no different from                              … More

Bereavement, Charles Wright, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, mindfulness, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence

The Thing Is

The Thing Is to love life, to love it evenwhen you have no stomach for itand everything you’ve held dearcrumbles … More

Ellen Bass, Grief, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets

When I am Asked

When I am Asked When I am asked    how I began writing poems,    I talk about the indifference of nature.    … More

Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Lisell Mueller, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Reading Poetry

Autumn

Autumn One night goes on longer than the rest, never so long, whiled away. Then dawn. Goodbye, insects. Hollow casings … More

Autumn, Grief, Lifesaving Poems, Malena Morling, Poems, Poetry, Poets, reading poems, Robert Hass, Roo Borson

God’s Grief

God’s Grief Great parentwho must have started outwith such high hopes.What magnitude of suffering,the immensity of guilt,the staggering despair.A mind … More

Ellen Bass, Grief, Life Lessons, Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry

The most popular lifesaving poems

Earlier this year my Lifesaving Poems blog enjoyed something of a milestone. Not as momentous as Jimmy Anderson taking his … More

Blogging, Brendan Kennelly, Derek Mahon, Lifesaving Poems, Mary Oliver, Naomi Shihab Nye, Pablo Neruda, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading Poetry, Rose Cook, Seamus Heaney, Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes, UA Fanthorpe

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