Every few minutes, he wantsto march the trail of flattened rye grassback to the house of mutteringhens. He too could makea bed in hay. Yesterday the egg so freshit felt hot in his hand and he pressed itto his ear while the other childrenlaughed and ran with a ball, leaving him, so little yet, too forgetful in games, ready to cry if the ball brushed him, riveted to the secret of birdscaught up inside his fist, not ready to give it overto the refrigeratoror the rest of the day.
Naomi Shihab Nye
We dropped our troubles into the lap of the storyteller, and they turned into someone else's.
inspiration
You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leafknow you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time.--The Art of Disappearing
poetry
Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
poetry childhood
KindnessBefore you know what kindness really isyou must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a momentlike salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you knowhow desolate the landscape can bebetween the regions of kindness. How you ride and ridethinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chickenwill stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness, you must travel where the Indian in a white poncholies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someonewho journeyed through the night with plansand the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voicecatches the thread of all sorrowsand you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoesand sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayIt is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend. Colombia
kindness
The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams
travel people
Let me peer out at the worldthrough your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.)Let me see how your blueis my turquoise and my orangeis your gold. Suddenly binarystars, we have startlinggravity. Let's comparescintillation - let's sharestarlight.
stars
Like our parents alwaystold us not to likefirefighters warn againstwe're playinggames and makingthe rules upas we go we'rematchingwarmth to warmthstarting fires burningwishes into ourskin we're hiddenholdingforbidden lightswe're childrenwhose fathers havenever taught nevertouchbut we're findingthese new flameswe smotherat the sound of footsteps.
fire
Only kindness that raises its headfrom the crowd of the world to sayit is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywherelike a shadow or a friend.
poems
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