Mindful Poetry

by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (translated By Jerome Rothenberg) I speak for none of your kind, I speak for the end of the owls. I speak for...

by Naomi Shahib Nye The text of the poem is available at poets.org

by David Whyte I thank you, for the smallest sound, for the way my ears open even before my eyes, as if to remember the way everything...

by Wendell Berry Horseback on Sunday morning, harvest over, we taste persimmon and wild grape, sharp sweet of summer's end. In time's...

by John O'Donohue I would love to live Like a river flows Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding.

by Pablo Neruda (translation by Alastair Reid) Now we will count to twelve And we will all keep still. For once on the face of the...

Reading poetry can be a valuable activity in a mindfulness class for several reasons: Focused Attention: Reading poetry often requires a...

by Richard Shiffman after Wallace Stevens The fortune that you seek is in another cookie, was my fortune. So I'll be equally frank--the...