Poems

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Expanded view

Marilyn Jane Rimmington

Once I conceived of here as there,As when instead of now.
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A calm so deep

Maurice Jay

When seas of mortal thought are churned,I often see, floating above tempestuous wave-lashan idea—the possibility conceived of calm—a calm so deep the seas are only whispers now.

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Changing your world

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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O sons! O daughters!

Doris Kerns Quinn

"O Timothy,".

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Your place*

CAROLYN M. HOOK

As a snake fits its hole,Or a turtle its shell,So there is a placeJust for you as well.
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Today and today

Thomas Alan Waldman

I am hathMadeMeOr else myReality were but myth.
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"On that night could not the king sleep"

Margaret Tsuda

Wakeful at a small inconvenient hourI thought of the sleepless Ahasueruscommanding his book of recordsbe read to him.

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Anthology of classic articles II

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Anthology of classic articles III

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From Freedom from addiction

LOST AND FOUND

I saw that in order to find my life, I had to first lose it—that is, lose all sense of life as material.

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From Free from Contagion

Bringing our prayers to the threat of contagion

Prayer can lift us out of the swirl of fear, and it can be a calming, healing influence in our communities as well.

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What hast thou?

MILDRED E. CAWLFIELD

What hast thou in the house?
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Insight

Carley Craig

Insight comesin that infinite instantwhen time and spacedissolve intojust knowingthatGod is.
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Joy

Virginia Thesiger

Happiness can be made into a list.
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Speechless

Laura Ann Blair

We work with words all day long,writing, erasing, thinking,squaring them up in books,wrapping them up in newspapers,speaking them—see them here.
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Forever free

Jane Huelster Hanson

Suggestioncan't surround me,can't hold mecaptive.
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Soul's child

Martha L. Hayes

Soul's childI restuntrammeledunfrenziedpoised at tempoin Soul's atmosphere of rhythm.