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A bee drops
into a poppy's cup-
what a life!
Like a shy lover
butterfly bush gently greets
my climbing jasmine.
Near my bird feeder
Mourning dove serenely sat
 while jays ate all the seed.
Come hear a variety of poets including myself read for Quiet Lightning's Poetry in the Parks. The event is free, but you can register for the event at https://app.gopassage.com/events/poetry-in-parks-2024
โPoetry is the eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.โ
โPoetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth:
the true poet is near the oracle.โ
โI think poetry must stay open all night in beautiful cellars.โ
โThe only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. Thatโs what poetry does.โ
โYou are the butterfly and you are gone.โ
โA poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.โ
โAlways be a poet, even in prose.โ
โPoetry is sort of a homecoming.โ
โAll night wild impulses
The only way to find a path
is to set fire to your life.โ
โPoetry is from the frontiers of consciousness.โ
โThe Kings who have died one by one are now reborn in poetโs hearts.โ
โPoetry is a lion because it eats and intensifies natural speech.โ
โThe poetry of the earth is never dead.โ
โWine is bottled poetry.โ
โPoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.โ
โPoetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.โ
โWords are alive โ cut them and they bleed.โ
โWe write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.โ
โPoetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.โ
โA poet must achieve a balance between solitude and solidarity, between feeling
and action, between intimacy of mankind and the revelation of nature.โ
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A poet and writer of the natural world, Terri Glass mentored under William Stafford and Robert Bly.