This is a collection of links to mindful and meditative poetry shared in the Monday night community.
Poems
Hokusai Says by Roger S. Keys
The Way it Is by William Stafford
Be Still in Haste by Wendell Berry
The Present by Billy Collins
Just This Breath by Danna Faulds
Start Close In by David Whyte
Awakening Rights by Mark Nepo
Terns by Mary Oliver
Awareness by John Astin
By Brain and Heart Divorced by John Roedel
Be Empty of Worrying by Rumi
Beyond the Question by May Sarton
The Art of Pausing by Gunilla Norris
Thinking by Danusha Laméris
Stay Home by Wendell Berry
Being Present by Danna Faulds
This We Have Now by Rumi
Lie Down by Nancy Paddock
The Moment by Marie Howe
May there only be letting go by Lissa Edmond
Prayer by Marie Howe
Phase One by Dilruba Ahmed
Moon by Billy Collins
One Morning by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
With That Moon Language by Hafiz
Self-Observation without Judgment by Danna Faulds
The Cure for it All by Julia Fehrenbacher
Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye
How to Open your Heart by Jeff Foster
Compassion by Miller Williams
The Quarrel by Conrad Aiken
Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
Ancient Language by Hannah Stephenson
The Place that We are Right by Yehuda Amichai
A Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Interbeing by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Worm's Waking by Rumi
I Said to this Wanting Creature Inside of Me by Kabir; translated by Robert Bly
Snowy Night by Mary Oliver
Please Call Me By My True Names by Thich Nhat Hanh
The Place Where We are Right by Yehuda Amichai
To the Rain by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver
One Heart by Li-Young Lee
Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters by Portia Nelson
The Optical Delusion of Consciousness by Albert Einstein
Twilight by Louise Glück
Solstice by Robyn Sarah
Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell
When I am Among the Trees by Mary Oliver
Winter Grace by Patricia Fargnoli
Blackbirds by Julie Cadwallader-Staub
Two Kinds of Intelligence by Rumi
In Early Evening by Kirsten Dierking
Tree by Jane Hirshfield
Antidotes to a Fear of Death by Rebecca Elson
In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver
The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Mary Oliver
Priceless Gifts by Anna Swir
Someone by Dennis O'Driscoll
You Will Lose Everything by Jeff Foster
Learning from Trees by Grace Butcher
Adrift by Mark Nepo
Grace by Rafael Jesus Gonzalez
Gratitude to Old Teachers by Robert Bly
Messenger by Mary Oliver
Mysteries, Yes by Mary Oliver
Mind Wanting More by Holly J. Hughes
The Word by Tony Hoagland
Adrift by Mark Nepo
The Good News by Thich Nhat Hanh
Mindful by Mary Oliver
Why I Smile At Strangers by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Quarrel by Conrad Aiken
Fear by Khalil Gibran
The Way it Is by Lynn Ungar
Forget About Enlightenment by John Welwood
Small Sentences to Drive Yourself Sane by Lew Welch
Joko Beck and Thought of Enlightenment by Peg Syverson
Fluent by John O'Donohue
She Let Go by Safire Rose
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
In the Interim Time by John O'Donohue
Reflective by A.R. Ammons