"Singularity", by Marie Howe
Poems arrive in the most interesting ways. This one came to me from a student, who couldn't sleep one night, and turned the radio on....
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 27
- 1 min
"Poem 133: The Summer Day", by Mary Oliver
A dear student mentioned this poem in class a few days ago (thank you for reminding us of this one, Eileen!): Poem 133: The Summer Day...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 26
- 1 min
"Why Are Your Poems So Dark?", by Linda Pastan
Toni Goodman shared this poem with us in her Poetry Circle, honoring Linda Pastan, a few days after she died. Toni writes: "Linda Pastan,...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 20
- 1 min
"I Live My Life In Widening Circles", by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lately, I have been reading a text by Albert Einstein in my classes, and he says the words "widening our circle of compassion", which...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Nov 20, 2022
- 1 min
"What Is The Body?", by Jelaluddin Rumi
An invisible bird flies over, but casts a quick shadow. What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Aug 28, 2022
- 1 min
"Poem Of The One World", by Mary Oliver
My friend Toni Goodman shared this beautiful Mary Oliver poem with us. Thank you Toni, my poetry mentor! Poem of the One World Mary...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
"You have endured...", Poem by Morgan Harper Nichols
We have a wonderful community of engaged people in my online yoga classes, and last Monday one of the students mentioned this poem in the...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 15, 2022
- 1 min
"Heal At the Pace...", by Yung Pueblo
I recently bought the book Clarity & Connection, by Yung Pueblo, and the first thing that I have been doing in the morning is to open it...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
"For Loneliness", by John O'Donohue
I bumped into this poem, by John O'Donohue, from his book "To Bless the Space Between Us" For Loneliness When the light lessens, Causing...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
"To Learn From Animal Being", by John O'Donohue
I recently read a phrase by Pierre Alais, yoga teacher, and student of Shivananda & T.K.V. Desikachar, a phrase that stayed with me:...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 13, 2019
- 1 min
"Unbroken", by Rashani Rea
There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of which blooms the unshatterable. There is a sorrow beyond...
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susanalabordeblaj
- May 7, 2019
- 2 min
"Being Human", by Naima Pettiman
I wonder if the sun debates dawn some mornings not wanting to rise out of bed from under that down-feather horizon if the sky grows tired...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Mar 21, 2019
- 1 min
"I Worried", by Mary Oliver
I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
"Of Love", by Mary Oliver
I have been in love more times than one, thank the Lord. Sometimes it was lasting whether active or not. Sometimes it was all but...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Jan 21, 2019
- 2 min
"To Begin With The Sweet Grass", by Mary Oliver
Will the hungry ox stand in the field and not eat of the sweet grass? Will the owl bite off its own wings? Will the lark forget to lift...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Dec 31, 2018
- 1 min
"Year's End", by Ted Kooser
Now the seasons are closing their files on each of us, the heavy drawers full of certificates rolling back into the tree trunks, a few...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Dec 10, 2018
- 1 min
"You and Art", by William Stafford
Your exact errors make a music that nobody hears. Your straying feet find the great dance, walking alone. And you live on a world where...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Dec 3, 2018
- 1 min
"Quo Vadis", by William Stafford
Sometimes I choose a cloud and let it cross the sky floating me away. Or a bird unravels its song and carries me as it flies deeper and...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Sep 4, 2018
- 1 min
"Being a Person", by William Stafford
Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke the owls. Invoke winter, then spring. Let any season that wants to come here make its own...
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susanalabordeblaj
- Aug 28, 2018
- 1 min
"At Blackwater Pond", by Mary Oliver
At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like...
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