New Year’s Day Former colleague Dana Greene alerted me to this luminescent New Year’s poem by Denise Levertov. In it, the poet compares hope to a small crystal and a cluster of irises. When Emily Dickinson describes hope as “the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she focuses on the individual. Hope comes […]
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2014, Eeyore, & Silver Linings
We can learn from Eeyore to be more forgiving of our public servants.
High above Flood & Fire Ye Held the Scroll
Emma Lazarus writes a Statue of Liberty-type poem celebrating Rosh Hashanah.
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Gazing into the Palantir in 2012
Tolkien warns us about gazing too deeply into the world’s darkness.
