Poems We Recited in Berkeley, 9/15/24

Kay Crista

Rumi: Who Says Words with My Mouth
Fleur Adcock: Weathering
Ellen Bass: What If You Knew
David Whyte: Everything is Waiting for You
Mary Oliver: The Journey
Jan Richardson: The Map You Make Yourself
Martín Prechtel: Mayan Blessing Poem (Thirteen Thank You’s)

Rebecca Evert

Rainer Maria Rilke: It is possible 

Alicia Ostriker: Blessing of the Old Women, the Tulip and the Dog  

Rumi: Only Breath 

Lois Edstrom: Almanac  

John O’Donohue: The Inner History of a Day  

Fred LaMotte: Revelations  

Susan Glassmaker: I Tell You  

Ute Indian Prayer: Earth Teach Me

Larry Robinson

Christopher Fry: O Pilgrim, A Sleep of Prisoners
Denise Levertov: Candles In Babylon
Yehuda Amichai: An Arab Shepherd
Stephen Spender: I Think Continually
William Stafford: Earth Dweller
John O’Donohue: Beannacht

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah 

Carol Bowers Foote

Liesel Mueller: Monet Refuses the Operation  
Pablo Neruda: Keeping Quiet
Marie Howe: Annunciation
Naomi Shihab Nye: Kindness
Rosemerry Trommer: Beyond Perfect  

William Stafford: You Reading this, be Ready
Li-Young Lee: Blossoms  

Barry Spector

Ojibway Prayer: Grandfathers, Grandmothers

Antonio Machado: It’s Possible

Mary Oliver: I Want to Write Something

Robert Bly: Stealing Sugar from the Castle

Mahmoud Darwish: Earth Poem

David Ignatow: Kaddish

Pablo Neruda: Poetry

Rumi: Living on the Lip of Insanity; You Must Become Ignorant

Barry Spector: Peach

David Whyte: One day I will say 

Maya Spector

Rumi: These Spiritual Window Shoppers; Come, Come…

Tony Hoagland: The Word 

Erin Geesaman Rabke: Let It Be a Sky  

May Sarton: When a Woman Feels Alone  

Mary Oliver: Roses, Late Summer  

Fred LaMotte: Election  

Maya Spector: Joy Is the Medicine 

Doug Von Koss

John Fox – When Someone Deeply Listens

Inuit – Magic Words

William J. Smith – Now Touch the Air

Antonio Machado – I’ve Walked Along Many Roads

Pablo Neruda – Ode to My Socks

Rumi – All Day I Think About It

Rumi – Spiritual Window Shoppers

David Whyte – Loaves and Fishes

Kay Crista

Hafiz – Someone Untied Your Camel

Jan Richardson – Blessing in a Time of Violence

Marie Howe – Singularity

Mary Oliver – The Journey

Diane Ackerman – School Prayer

Joyce Sutphen – From Out the Cave

Rosemerry Trommer – When the Audio Engineer Told Me…

Ellen Bass – Gate C22

David Whyte –The Truelove

Hafiz – My Brilliant Image

Maya Spector

Tony Hoagland – The Word 

Gregory Orr – When You're Afraid 

Erin Rabke – Let It Be a Sky 

Rumi – Wild Ocean Duck 

Maya Spector – Joy Is the Medicine 

Warsan Shire – What They Did Yesterday Afternoon 

Rosemerry Trommer – Again, I Am Ruled by It 

Edward Abbey – Benedicto 

Barry Spector

Bertolt Brecht – To Posterity

Climbing Poetry – For the Courageous

Antonio Machado – Caminante No Ay Camino

Billy Marshall-Stoneking – Passage

Pablo Neruda – Horses

Gregory Orr – The Poet Approaches the Lectern

David Whyte – Finisterre

Nanao Sakaki – If You Have Time to Chatter

William Stafford – Learning

William Stafford – You Don’t Need to Prove Anything

W. B. Yeats – A Drinking Song

Eduardo Galeano – The Body

Gary Snyder – It’s a Good Thing to Memorize Poems

Larry Robinson

W. B. Yeats – The Song of Wandering Angus

Jack Gilbert – A Brief for the Defense

Rumi – Oh Pilgrim

Rebecca Evert

Mary Oliver – One or Two Things  

Ranier Maria Rilke – God Speaks to Each us as he Makes us 

Miriam Darlington – Angels 

Rumi – There is a Community of the Spirit 

Pamela Runkle – When you Meet Someone Deep in Grief  

Lisel Mueller – Monet Refuses the Operation 

John O’Donohue – The Inner History of a Day 

Kim Stafford – Champion the Enemy’s Need  

David Whyte – Working Together 

Sharon Olds – Topography