Six poems to support you in the healing process.
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Between the earth and the air above
life speaks in clouds.
Converse with your maker,
No matter the treasure bestowed
on you in the night, when you wake,
keep something for yourself.
Slow down.
Press lightly with your feet.
Shoes on, shoes off, it doesn’t matter.
There is no substitute
for feeling what calls to be felt,
no shortcut through the forest.
Eight of my favourite books, for the nature lover.
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These lines by Mary Oliver stayed with me long after the poems were finished.
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You might just find your new favourite poem in this list!
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Ten beautiful poems to help you feel calm and reassured.
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A collection of ten poems to help you find strength
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A collection of five poems to read before (or during!) a walk
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This is not the fruitless kind,
the rearranging of deck chairs
as the ship goes down…
Stay a while, still.
Less like the wind,
more like the ground you stand on…
We should live at least one day like it’s the last.
Not our own last, but THE last,
as if the world and time itself
is out of ideas for what comes next…
This is their shortest stop,
a flourish, a visible high point
in the business of their life—
Stray, to where? With whom?
In the end we must choose ourselves
over and over.
All I can think about are those tiny feet, his first laugh, and how he surprised me one day with the word ‘red’. What a joy as they start to move, and speak and enjoy the world. What heartache when they feel hurt by it.
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We could not tell you sooner—
you had to ask the question first,
had to wonder why….
I had been strolling along, admiring the scenery, when the forest asked me to stop.
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I was quite sure I was going crazy. For years I walked around talking to myself in my head. I know we all do this. But as well as the usual internal dialogue, I imagined not conversations so much, as monologues.
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