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https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry daily 0.75 2025-10-24 https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/the-thing-is-by-ellen-bass monthly 0.5 2025-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1761321135966-2THOR87A5D03QSZET7L6/IMG_5277.jpg poetry - The Thing Is by Ellen Bass The Thing Is by Ellen Bass To love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/a-journey-by-by-edward-field monthly 0.5 2022-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1667241301781-CT338WHOS9HPYKYMM1Q2/unnamed.jpeg poetry - A Journey by - by Edward Field - A Journey By Edward Field When he got up that morning everything was different: He enjoyed the bright spring day But he did not realize it exactly, he just enjoyed it. And walking down the street to the railroad station Past magnolia trees with dying flowers like old socks It was a long time since he had breathed so simply. Tears filled his eyes and it felt good But he held them back Because men didn’t walk around crying in that town. Waiting on the platform at the station The fear came over him of something terrible about to happen: The train was late and he recited the alphabet to keep hold. And in its time it came screeching in And as it went on making its usual stops, People coming and going, telephone poles passing, He hid his head behind a newspaper No longer able to hold back the sobs, and willed his eyes To follow the rational weavings of the seat fabric. He didn’t do anything violent as he had imagined. He cried for a long time, but when he finally quieted down A place in him that had been closed like a fist was open, And at the end of the ride he stood up and got off that train: And through the streets and in all the places he lived in later on He walked, himself at last, a man among men, With such radiance that everyone looked up and wondered. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/the-first-time-percy-came monthly 0.5 2022-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1667004360220-2H755RBWBL1XOTT0ABCW/IMG_3709.JPG poetry - The First Time Percy Came Back - by Mary Oliver - The First Time Percy Came Back by Mary Oliver The first time Percy came back he was not sailing on a cloud. He was loping along the sand as though he had come a great way. "Percy," I cried out, and reached to him— those white curls— but he was unreachable. As music is present yet you can't touch it. "Yes, it's all different," he said. "You're going to be very surprised." But I wasn't thinking of that. I only wanted to hold him. "Listen," he said, "I miss that too. And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back and they won't be false, and they won't be true, but they'll be real." And then, as he used to, he said, "Let's go!" And we walked down the beach together. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/watching-my-friend-pretend monthly 0.5 2022-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1663362836091-JSW5324URBP1A03JWW0V/IMG_5860.jpeg poetry - Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - Watching My Friend Pretend Her Heart Isn’t Breaking by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a neutron star. How dense it is, how it carries inside it the memory of collapse. How difficult it is to move then. How impossible to believe that anything could lift that weight. There are many reasons to treat each other with great tenderness. One is the sheer miracle that we are here together on a planet surrounded by dying stars. One is that we cannot see what anyone else has swallowed. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/touched-by-an-angel-by-maya-angelou monthly 0.5 2022-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1607526774099-5JG1SBX01M8E1K72WP3F/IMG_0646.jpeg poetry - touched by an angel - by maya angelou - touched by an angel by maya angelou We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/a-brave-and-startling-truth-by-maya-angelou monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1607371571892-LQ0CXBQMUSVO8U7LIGSL/IMG_8678.jpeg poetry - a brave and startling truth - by maya angelou - a brave and startling truth by maya angelou We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and startling truth And when we come to it To the day of peacemaking When we release our fingers From fists of hostility And allow the pure air to cool our palms When we come to it When the curtain falls on the minstrel show of hate And faces sooted with scorn are scrubbed clean When battlefields and coliseum No longer rake our unique and particular sons and daughters Up with the bruised and bloody grass To lie in identical plots in foreign soil When the rapacious storming of the churches The screaming racket in the temples have ceased When the pennants are waving gaily When the banners of the world tremble Stoutly in the good, clean breeze When we come to it When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders And children dress their dolls in flags of truce When land mines of death have been removed And the aged can walk into evenings of peace When religious ritual is not perfumed By the incense of burning flesh And childhood dreams are not kicked awake By nightmares of abuse When we come to it Then we will confess that not the Pyramids With their stones set in mysterious perfection Nor the Gardens of Babylon Hanging as eternal beauty In our collective memory Not the Grand Canyon Kindled into delicious color By Western sunsets Nor the Danube, flowing its blue soul into Europe Not the sacred peak of Mount Fuji Stretching to the Rising Sun Neither Father Amazon nor Mother Mississippi who, without favor, Nurture all creatures in the depths and on the shores These are not the only wonders of the world When we come to it We, this people, on this minuscule and kithless globe Who reach daily for the bomb, the blade and the dagger Yet who petition in the dark for tokens of peace We, this people on this mote of matter In whose mouths abide cankerous words Which challenge our very existence Yet out of those same mouths Come songs of such exquisite sweetness That the heart falters in its labor And the body is quieted into awe We, this people, on this small and drifting planet Whose hands can strike with such abandon That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness That the haughty neck is happy to bow And the proud back is glad to bend Out of such chaos, of such contradiction We learn that we are neither devils nor divines When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/singularity-by-marie-howe monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1607371414610-7LJCVZC734ADZVGVOURO/FullSizeRender-2.jpeg poetry - singularity - by marie howe - singularity by marie howe (after Stephen Hawking) Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? so compact nobody needed a bed, or food or money— nobody hiding in the school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are kept. For every atom belonging to me as good Belongs to you. Remember? There was no Nature. No them. No tests to determine if the elephant grieves her calf or if the coral reef feels pain. Trashed oceans don’t speak English or Farsi or French; would that we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness. Can molecules recall it? what once was? before anything happened? No I, no We, no one. No was No verb no noun only a tiny tiny dot brimming with is is is is is All everything home https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/lvh53u041kq7zxk2b4wuz99ugzwewn monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1607371698164-N6C4UFRGZMMAW7EDZYEY/FullSizeRender-3.jpeg poetry - the round - by stanley kunitz - the round by stanley kunitz Light splashed this morning on the shell-pink anemones swaying on their tall stems; down blue-spiked veronica light flowed in rivulets over the humps of the honeybees; this morning I saw light kiss the silk of the roses in their second flowering, my late bloomers flushed with their brandy. A curious gladness shook me. So I have shut the doors of my house, so I have trudged downstairs to my cell, so I am sitting in semi-dark hunched over my desk with nothing for a view to tempt me but a bloated compost heap, steamy old stinkpile, under my window; and I pick my notebook up and I start to read aloud the still-wet words I scribbled on the blotted page: "Light splashed . . ." I can scarcely wait till tomorrow when a new life begins for me, as it does each day, as it does each day. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/the-summer-day-by-mary-oliver monthly 0.5 2020-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1607526857788-RJIGM98UOK681TOPR4PF/IMG_3631.jpeg poetry - the summer day - by mary oliver - the summer day by mary oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/the-harrowing-by-parker-j-palmer monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1607370825884-8L2RBS9AZXA1USULT53M/IMG_4475.jpeg poetry - the harrowing - by parker j. palmer - the harrowing by parker j. palmer The plow has savaged this sweet field Misshapen clods of earth kicked up Rocks and twisted roots exposed to view Last year’s growth demolished by the blade. I have plowed my life this way Turned over a whole history Looking for the roots of what went wrong Until my face is ravaged, furrowed, scarred. Enough. The job is done. Whatever’s been uprooted, let it be Seedbed for the growing that’s to come. I plowed to unearth last year’s reasons— The farmer plows to plant a greening season. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/gk9qqk2dlqf8749ysjzd6x02ouijli-79kj6-29se2-8rxjs monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1593762645540-DG3907AW3NI5CYA5IW7O/image-asset.jpeg poetry - the peace of wild things - by wendell berry - the peace of wild things by wendell berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/gk9qqk2dlqf8749ysjzd6x02ouijli-79kj6-29se2 monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1593762480701-QPLUT2YVGS1O9ILPOB3O/IMG_2474.jpeg poetry - the house of belonging - by david whyte - the house of belonging by david whyte I awoke this morning in the gold light turning this way and that thinking for a moment it was one day like any other. But the veil had gone from my darkened heart and I thought it must have been the quiet candlelight that filled my room, it must have been the first easy rhythm with which I breathed myself to sleep, it must have been the prayer I said speaking to the otherness of the night. And I thought this is the good day you could meet your love, this is the black day someone close to you could die. This is the day you realize how easily the thread is broken between this world and the next and I found myself sitting up in the quiet pathway of light, the tawny close grained cedar burning round me like fire and all the angels of this housely heaven ascending through the first roof of light the sun has made. This is the bright home in which I live, this is where I ask my friends to come, this is where I want to love all the things it has taken me so long to learn to love. This is the temple of my adult aloneness and I belong to that aloneness as I belong to my life. There is no house like the house of belonging. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/gk9qqk2dlqf8749ysjzd6x02ouijli monthly 0.5 2020-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1593762152152-OL222KHAF87AKRX38WCX/IMG_5153.jpeg poetry - on loneliness - by mary oliver - on loneliness by mary oliver When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world. Notice something you have never noticed before, like the tambourine sound of the snow-cricket whose pale green body is no longer than your thumb. Stare hard at the hummingbird, in the summer rain, shaking the water-sparks from its wings. Let grief be your sister, she will wither or not. Rise up from the stump of sorrow, and be green also, like the diligent leaves. A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life. Scatter your flowers over the graves, and walk away. Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance. In the glare of your mind, be modest. And beholden to what is tactile, and thrilling. Live with the beetle, and the wind. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/gk9qqk2dlqf8749ysjzd6x02ouijli-79kj6 monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1593762344667-465KSV60CZXCW7J3T8Y4/IMG_5153.jpeg poetry - the gift - by mary oliver - the gift by mary oliver Be still, my soul, and steadfast. Earth and heaven both are still watching though time is draining from the clock and your walk, that was confident and quick, has become slow. So, be slow if you must, but let the heart still play its true part. Love still as once you loved, deeply and without patience. Let God and the world know you are grateful. That the gift has been given. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/poem-s5hfl-rzr3k-e8fx2-36kt3 monthly 0.5 2020-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1593744897465-D6R6AMEIXCP6K2AN55SD/navajo-healing-ceremony-prayer-maple-tree poetry - navajo night chant prayer - prayer from the navajo healing ceremony Night Chant House made of dawn. House made of evening light. House made of the dark cloud. House made of male rain. House made of dark mist. House made of female rain. House made of pollen. House made of grasshoppers. Dark cloud is at the door. The trail out of it is dark cloud. The zigzag lightning stands high upon it. Your offering I make. I have prepared a smoke for you. Restore my feet for me. Restore my legs for me. Restore my body for me. Restore my mind for me. This very day take out your spell for me. Your spell remove for me. You have taken it away for me. Far off it has gone. Happily I recover. Happily my interior becomes cool. Happily I go forth. My interior feeling cool, may I walk. No longer sore, may I walk. Impervious to pain, may I walk. With lively feeling may I walk. As it used to be long ago, may I walk. Happily may I walk. Happily, with abundant dark clouds, may I walk. Happily, with abundant showers, may I walk. Happily, with abundant plants, may I walk. Happily, on a trail of pollen, may I walk. Happily may I walk. Being as it used to be long ago, may I walk. May it be beautiful before me May it be beautiful behind me. May it be beautiful below me. May it be beautiful above me. With it be beautiful all around me. In beauty it is finished. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/antidote-to-fear-of-death monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1586819088098-4XTNA8MZT0GCY3YTEXXX/image-asset.jpeg poetry - antidote to fear of death - rebecca elson - antidote to fear of death antidote to fear of death by Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form. And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones: To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/for-grief-by-john-odonohue monthly 0.5 2019-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1571935501505-RYDMEXTUZPTQSKVN31P1/IMG_2998.jpeg poetry - for grief — by john o'donohue - for grief by john o’donohue When you lose someone you love, Your life becomes strange, The ground beneath you gets fragile, Your thoughts make your eyes unsure; And some dead echo drags your voice down Where words have no confidence. Your heart has grown heavy with loss; And though this loss has wounded others too, No one knows what has been taken from you When the silence of absence deepens. Flickers of guilt kindle regret For all that was left unsaid or undone. There are days when you wake up happy; Again inside the fullness of life, Until the moment breaks And you are thrown back Onto the black tide of loss. Days when you have your heart back, You are able to function well Until in the middle of work or encounter, Suddenly with no warning, You are ambushed by grief. It becomes hard to trust yourself. All you can depend on now is that Sorrow will remain faithful to itself. More than you, it knows its way And will find the right time To pull and pull the rope of grief Until that coiled hill of tears Has reduced to its last drop. Gradually, you will learn acquaintance With the invisible form of your departed; And, when the work of grief is done, The wound of loss will heal And you will have learned To wean your eyes From that gap in the air And be able to enter the hearth In your soul where your loved one Has awaited your return All the time. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/vulnerability-by-david-whyte monthly 0.5 2019-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1566981956791-YBQ8I61M4V6NP9UH7E47/IMG_1360.JPG poetry - vulnerability — by david whyte - vulnerability by david whyte Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without, vulnerability is not a choice, vulnerability is the underlying, ever present and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature, the attempt to be invulnerable is the vain attempt to become something we are not and most especially, to close off our understanding of the grief of others. More seriously, in refusing our vulnerability we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence and immobilize the essential, tidal and conversational foundations of our identity. To have a temporary, isolated sense of power over all events and circumstances, is a lovely illusionary privilege and perhaps the prime and most beautifully constructed conceit of being human and especially of being youthfully human, but it is a privilege that must be surrendered with that same youth, with ill health, with accident, with the loss of loved ones who do not share our untouchable powers; powers eventually and most emphatically given up, as we approach our last breath. The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability, how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate through our intimacy with disappearance, our choice is to inhabit vulnerability as generous citizens of loss, robustly and fully, or conversely, as misers and complainers, reluctant and fearful, always at the gates of existence, but never bravely and completely attempting to enter, never wanting to risk ourselves, never walking fully through the door. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/what-we-need-is-here-by-wendell-berry monthly 0.5 2019-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1566981955933-8NXRE2LHKCH5ABU45ULF/IMG_1385.jpg poetry - what we need is here — by wendell berry - what we need is here by wendell berry Geese appear high over us, pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear in the ancient faith: what we need is here. And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye, clear. What we need is here. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/i-thank-you-god-for-most-this-amazing-by-ee-cummings monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1571932420426-TTVOR18YVRDDX3MYFK5I/image-asset.jpeg poetry - i thank you god for most this amazing — by e.e cummings - i thank god for most this amazing by e.e. cummings i thank You God for most this amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay great happening illimitably earth) how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any–lifted from the no of all nothing–human merely being doubt unimaginable You? https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/saint-francis-and-the-sow-by-galway-kinnell monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1571936181152-HKJNF9B3KQ4H8SHNHH02/image-asset.jpeg poetry - saint francis and the sow — by galway kinnell - saint francis and the sow by galway kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing; as Saint Francis put his hand on the creased forehead of the sow, and told her in words and in touch blessings of earth on the sow, and the sow began remembering all down her thick length, from the earthen snout all the way through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of the tail, from the hard spininess spiked out from the spine down through the great broken heart to the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting and shuddering from the fourteen teats into the fourteen mouths sucking and blowing beneath them: the long, perfect loveliness of sow. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/love-after-love-derek-walcott monthly 0.5 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1567634090951-WHTCKXEM03N9RUO10AWT/red+leaf.jpg poetry - love after love — derek walcott - love after love by derek walcott The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/sweet-darkness-by-david-whyte monthly 0.5 2019-10-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1571932831880-SK4IVOINPNKLI2X2KS35/IMG_0844.jpeg poetry - sweet darkness — by david whyte - sweet darkness by david whyte When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone, no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love. The dark will be your home tonight. The night will give you a horizon further than you can see. You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you. https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/beannacht-the-blessing-by-john-odonohue monthly 0.5 2020-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1571937063146-9ZVF7SJ30G0DPCE69WY3/IMG_2213.jpg poetry - beannacht (the blessing) — by john o'donohue - beannacht (the blessing) by john o’donohue On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets into you, May a flock of colours, Indigo, red, green And azure blue, Come to awaken in you A meadow of delight. When the canvas frays In the currach of thought And a stain of ocean Blackens beneath you, May there come across the waters A path of yellow moonlight To bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, May the clarity of light be yours, May the fluency of the ocean be yours, May the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow Wind work these words Of love around you, An invisible cloak To mind your life. *Currach – Gaelic for a small wooden boat or sailboat https://makemeaningworkshop.com/poetry/a-zero-circle-by-rumi monthly 0.5 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1594244926779-6Z746PXJY0SO4L97XALP/IMG_5096.jpeg poetry - a zero circle — by rumi - a zero circle by rumi Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we’re lying. If we say No, we don’t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead us. 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When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you down like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1567893793847-WMQHOCKE2K0REURRBJFU/image-asset.jpeg poetry - the layers by stanley kunitz I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy wings. 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Follow the instructions provided in each section. Do it on your own, with a friend or family member. Use it daily, once a week or once a month. Draw, color, write! Make this workbook your own! 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In this safe and boundaried session, we practice writing, reading and deep-listening to alchemize our perspective, ground our energy and discover more about ourselves and the ways we can grow and heal after our relationship choices harm or hijack us. The Make Meaning writing workshop helps us actively choose individual transformation over obsessive relationship fixing. Registration now open below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/d94f0d44-cf6c-4d3c-9e0a-62decbb62616/Screenshot+2025-10-28+at+9.26.11+AM.png monthly Testimonial "I found the process of writing from my intuition and heart to be incredibly healing and insightful. The group setting and timed sessions were powerful--the format of the workshop proves that we can all access our soul's wisdom in minutes, without any special preparation…Alexandra has created a powerful and illuminating workshop you can use regularly for deeper self-knowledge and understanding, whether you attend one time or go regularly. “ - Erin / Participant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/2a77d1df-a4c9-4c40-834e-12f244a560d0/IMG_6892.jpg monthly - How it Works The group will meet on the first Monday of every month from 6:00–7:30 pm ET. When registering, you will see the suggested ticket price ($25) and the option to pay-what-you-can. Each participant is welcome to join for as many sessions as they like. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/12ac00cd-f92c-439d-a8d1-f1a15dfa6962/hannah-olinger-8eSrC43qdro-unsplash.jpg Making Meaning in the Workplace - Participants make meaning in this workshop by: • Using curated prompts as creative catalysts for growth and meaning-making • Practicing expressive writing and deep listening • Exploring their experiences in a safe and boundaried process • Cultivating their capacity for presence, connection and resilience https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cdc7778840b16a6b8f7e73c/1667581633192-GXTSB6AE4BKA0QHF1WUI/newheadshot.jpeg Making Meaning in the Workplace - Meet Alexandra Alexandra Vassilaros, Pulitzer Prize Finalist & Founder, has been leading writing workshops for nearly a decade. 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