Thoughtful Thursday Poetry Corner

Enjoy these poems selected, and in some cases written, with our loved ones on the Otherside  deeply in mind and heart.

These poems are discussed and reflected upon each Thursday at noon ET as part of our Downeast 12-Step Bereavement Support Group (ZOOM Meeting).  All are welcome.

We look forward to meeting you there.

3/23/2023: Spring Drumming Again by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

3/16/2023: Gather Up by Athey Thompson

3/9/2023: I Will Not Work Today  by Tom Howard

3/2/2023: Joy in the Morning  by Tauren Wells

wind chime fairy against sky with tree branches in winter

2/23/2023: Stirring Sleeping Beauty (An Incantation) by Lisa Reilich

 2/16/2023: Just Like That by Bonnie Raitt

2/9/2023: Train Ride by Ruth Stone

2/2/2023: Shadow and Light Source Both by Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks

1/26/2023: Praise Song  by Hafizah Augustus Geter

1/19/2023: Life is Like Stepping Onto a Boat by Shunryu Suzuki Rossi

1/12/2023: Letters to a Young Poet (poetic excerpt) by Rainer Maria Rilke

1/5/2023: I Worried by Mary Oliver

12/29/2022: The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown  by Mac Barnett (poetic excerpt)

12/22/2022: In the Bleak Midwinter by Christina Rossetti

12/15/2022: How Many Nights by Galway Kinnell

12/8/2022: And, She Said by Athey Thompson

12/1/2022: Belonging by Rosemary Wahtola Trommer

11/24/2022: Coda by Jason Shinder

11/17/2022: Song of No Coming, No Going by Thich Naht Hanh

 11/10/2022: Mysteries, Yes by Mary Oliver

11/3/2022: A Blessing for Absence by John O’Donohue

10/20/2022: Fall Song by Joy Harjo

10/13/2022: Zen poem translated by Sr. Dang Nghiem

10/5/2022: The World I Live In by Mary Oliver

6/16/2022: Downeast Sunrise Trail by Kristen Spreanza

6/9/2022: When I Am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver

6/2/2022: The Rest House by Brandon Shimoda

5/26/2022: For Grief  by John O’Donohue

5/19/2022: Stages by Herman Hesse

5/12/2022: Ocean by Native

5/5/2022: The Cloud by Thich Naht Hanh

4/28/2022: from Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

4/21/2022: Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4/14/2022: Gone from My Sight by Rev. Luther F. Beecher

4/7/2022: Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye

3/31/2022: from New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

3/24/2022: Beannacht by John O’Donohue

3/10/2022: Don’t Go Back to Sleep by Rumi

3/3/2022:  How to Grieve on Tuesdays with Flare by Lisa Reilich