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The Way Under the Way

By Mark Nepo
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This poem by Mark Nepo celebrates the abundance of imperfection.

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Almost Nothing, Yet Everything: A Stunning Japanese Illustrated Poem Celebrating Water and the Wonder of Life

“If you turn your back to the blues and deny your dependence on them,” Ellen Meloy wrote in her timeless meditation on water as a portal to transcendence, “you might lose your place in the world, your actions would become small, your soul disengaged.”

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Maria Popova
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Holy Magic

Priscilla Long contains multitudes: scientific writer, art scholar, social activist, historical enthusiast, and well-published poet.

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Priscilla Long
2020
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To the Moon: An Anthology of Lunar Poems

“While editing ‘Answering Back,’ in which living poets replied to poems from the past, I was astonished to see how many of the poems, old and new, referred to the moon.

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Carol Ann Duffy (editor)
2025
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Conamara Blues: Poems

Translating the beauty and splendor of his native Conamara into a language exquisitely attuned to the wonder of the everyday, John O’Donohue takes us on a moving journey through real and imagined worlds.

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John O’Donohue
2004
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