The Hedgehog by Lola Haskins
Yesterday, along a walled track
I came upon a dark-brown brush
just the size of my hand.
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Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson
I
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
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Lost by David Wagoner
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
Are not lost.
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Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
On a roof in the Old City
Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
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Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
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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,
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Some More Light Verse by Wendy Cope
You have to try. You see the shrink.
You learn a lot. You read. You think.
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The Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
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| A Time to Talk by Robert Frost | Harlem by Langston Hughes |
| When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around |
What happens to a dream deferred? |
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