Words of Wonder: An Index

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Below is the list of poetic words of wonder that have been added to our Words of Wonder blog by tutors of the Mindfulness Association.

A Few Words On The Soul – Wisława Szymborska
September 9, 2020

A Morning Offering – John O’Donohue
August 12, 2018

A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life – Rose Cook
March 17, 2021

A Portable Paradise – Roger Robinson
November 18, 2020

A Prayer – Toyohiko Kagawa
March 17, 2019

A Winter Bluejay
January 5, 2021

ABCs of Grateful Living – David Steindl-Rast
December 13, 2021

Adrift – Mark Nepo
November 27, 2023

Ah, not to be cut off – Rainer Maria Rilke
September 28, 2024

Aimless Love – Billy Colins
June 21, 2020

Allow – Danna Faulds
August 25, 2019

Among deep mountains – Saigyō
May 17, 2022

And Be – Olga Bloemen
October 6, 2021

Are you looking for me? – Kabir
February 17, 2019

Ash Tree – Mike Pratt
August 18, 2019

At the Teahouse, 6 am – Holly J. Hughes
June 22, 2024

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters – Portia Nelson
July 5, 2020

Autumn – John Clare
November 13, 2019

Awakening now – Danna Faulds
May 8, 2018

Balance – Jane Hirshfield
October 20, 2021

Bapuji says – Swami Kripalvananda
October 6, 2019

Be empty of worrying – Rumi
February 11, 2021

Be patient toward all – Reiner Maria Rilke
May 9, 2018

Beannacht (New Year blessing) – John O’Donohue
December 30, 2018

Beech Trees in Spring – James Crews
November 10, 2022

Belonging – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
November 13, 2023

Benedicto – Edward Abbey
August 6, 2020

blessing the boats – Lucille Clifton
November 18, 2018

Bone – Mary Oliver
December 12, 2022

Boundaries – Lynn Ungar
March 10, 2019

Breathe – Lynn Ungar
November 3, 2020

But listen to me – Rumi
August 19, 2018

Change – Kathleen Jessie Raine
January 27, 2020

Clarity – Martin Bril
March 30, 2024

Clearing – Martha Postlethwaite
December 8, 2020

Daily – Naomi Shihab Nye
April 7, 2019

Daisies – Mary Oliver
June 7, 2020

Dawn Revisited – Rita Dove
June 24, 2021

Dear You – Kaveri Patel
January 21, 2021

Dhammadinna – Matty Weingast
May 2, 2022

Diamonds – Ingrid Goff-Maidoff
August 3, 2021

Do You Love Me – Rumi
February 10, 2020

Don’t go outside – Kabir
January 13, 2019

Eagle poem – Joy Harjo
February 23, 2022

Earth Verse – Gary Snyder
March 7, 2020

Earth, I thank you – Anne Spencer
July 12, 2020

Eat bread and understand comfort – Mary Oliver
January 5, 2020

Enough – David Whyte
May 19, 2021

Everything Is Waiting for You – David Whyte
April 12, 2020

Fall, Leaves, Fall
October 13, 2020

Famous – Naomi Shihab Nye
September 22, 2021

Fear – Kahlil Gibran
August 5, 2020

Fire – Judy Brown
November 27, 2022

Flowering – Linda Buckmaster
September 15, 2020

For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet – Joy Harjo
June 7, 2024

For Presence – John O’Donohue
June 15, 2022

For Suffering – John O’Donohue
March 24, 2019

Forest Lake – Edith Södergran
May 29, 2023

Forget about enlightenment – John Welwood
June 24, 2018

Found – Ratnadevi
March 30, 2023

Give Up The Fight – Gretchen Haley
January 7, 2024

Glimpse – Chase Twichell
July 28, 2021

Go Among Trees and Sit Still – Wendell Berry
June 10, 2018

Go In and In – Danna Faulds
August 14, 2019

Grace – Alice Walker
July 7, 2019

Grace of Snow – Orla Beaton
December 27, 2023

Gratefulness – Dale Biron
November 9, 2020

Happiness – Lama Gendun Rinpoche
September 30, 2020

His Choir – St. Thomas Aquinas
November 16, 2021

Hokusai says – Roger Keyes
June 3, 2018

Hokusai Says – Roger Keyes (revisited)
April 6, 2021

Homecoming – Linda Reuther
February 18, 2023

Hope – Nicholas Mazza
October 27, 2021

How I Became a Warrior – Jeff Foster
October 14, 2022

How the light comes – Jan Richardson
December 28, 2021

how to breathe when you want to give up – Cleo Wade
October 28, 2020

I Am Not I – Juan Ramón Jiménez
December 2, 2020

I Am Not I – Juan Ramon Jimenez (revisited)
April 14, 2021

I am the black lace tree – Wendy Simpson
December 9, 2018

I am the earth – Larry Ward
April 27, 2021

I many times thought Peace had come – Emily Dickinson
August 24, 2021

I Worried – Mary Oliver
October 20, 2020

I’ve learned to live simply, wisely – Anna Akhmatova
April 20, 2022

If you hanker – James Broughton
February 3, 2019

Improvement – Danusha Laméris
February 6, 2023

In all ten directions… – Ryōkan
June 14, 2020

In Impossible Darkness – Kim Rosen
March 29, 2020

In the beginning – David Whyte
March 31, 2019

In the Land of Words – Eloise Greenfield
October 4, 2020

Innocence – Linda Hogan
August 4, 2019

Inside It All – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
September 18, 2023

Invitation – Mary Oliver
January 20, 2024

Isn’t that something – Rumi
December 20, 2021

It felt love – Daniel Ladinsky rendition of Hafiz
May 8, 2018

Just a day – Donna Ashworth
October 15, 2024

Just Sit There Right Now – Daniel Ladinsky rendition of Hafiz
November 3, 2021

Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye
December 15, 2019

Kingfisher – Robert Macfarlane
September 16, 2019

Last Echo – Poem by Navin Arora
June 21, 2022

Last night as I was sleeping – Antonio Machado
July 22, 2020

Late Fragment – Raymond Carver
February 19, 2024

Let go – ‘Six Words of Advice’ – Tilopa
May 5, 2019

Let Love Go – Jeff Foster
November 10, 2021

Let There Be – Jane Clarke
August 21, 2023

Let’s remake the world – Gregory Orr
April 21, 2019

Letting go – Stewart Mercer
May 10, 2020

Life is laughing in a pebble – Eveline Beumkes
July 21, 2019

Lightning – Matsuo Bashō
July 9, 2023

Like Roots – St. Francis of Assisi
December 7, 2021

Listen, O Brothers and Sisters – Yeshe Tsogyal
May 15, 2023

Lockdown – Richard Hendrick
March 22, 2020

Lost – David Wagoner
April 5, 2020

Lough Inagh – David Whyte
July 26, 2022

Love – Czesław Miłosz
June 23, 2019

Love after love – Derek Walcott
January 19, 2020

Mask – Dr Parween Pazhwak
August 17, 2021

Mindful – Mary Oliver
July 8, 2018

Mistletoe – Walter de La Mare
December 21, 2019

Misty – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
May 27, 2024

Moon – Gregory Orr
June 17, 2018

My Brain and Heart Divorced – John Roedel
November 30, 2021

My eyes so soft – Daniel Ladinsky rendition of Hafiz
April 21, 2020

My Mother’s Love – Pascale Petit
April 15, 2024

Mysteries, Yes – Mary Oliver
October 2, 2022

No-Coming, No-Going – Thich Nhat Hanh
February 8, 2022

Not a day on any calendar – Rumi
June 30, 2021

Oceans – Juan Ramon Jimenez
June 12, 2023

On how to pick and eat poems – Phyllis Cole-Dai
November 25, 2018

On pain – Kahlil Gibran
September 20, 2022

One Morning – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
August 19, 2020

One’s ship comes in – Joe Paddock
October 20, 2019

Pandemic – Lynn Ungar
March 15, 2020

Peace is This Moment without Judgment – Dorothy Hunt
February 18, 2021

Please call me by my true names – Thich Nhat Hanh
May 17, 2020

Poem for today – Kathleen Jamie
March 8, 2022

Poultice – Brother Richard Hendrick
October 28, 2023

Prescription For The Disillusioned – Rebecca del Rio
September 1, 2024

Red brocade – Naomi Shihab Nye
July 15, 2018

Release – Julia Fehrenbacher
June 15, 2023

Remember – Brigit Anna McNeill
May 31, 2022

Return – Frank MacEowen
July 21, 2024

RSVP – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
September 1, 2020

Say ‘Wow’ – Chelan Harkin
January 4, 2022

Screen-saver – Imtiaz Dharker
May 13, 2024

Self-Compassion – James Crews
December 11, 2023

Self-Compassion – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
October 28, 2024

Self-Observation Without Judgement – Danna Faulds
September 14, 2021

She Let Go – Safire Rose
February 5, 2024

She Who Reconciles – Rainer Maria Rilke
January 9, 2023

Small Kindnesses – Danusha Laméris
August 26, 2020

Smart Cookie – Richard Schiffman
September 23, 2018

Solace – Dafydd Davies-Hughes
May 3, 2020

Solstice – Robyn Sarah
December 16, 2018

Splendor – Thomas Centolella
September 22, 2019

Starting with little things – William Stafford
May 19, 2019

Stay – Pema Chödrön
February 24, 2021

Stone – Charles Simic
April 14, 2023

STOP MEDITATING, START LIVING! – Jeff Foster
August 3, 2024

Stubborn Resistance – Chelan Harkin
August 10, 2022

Such Singing in the Wild Branches – Mary Oliver
March 16, 2023

Talking To My Son Before Sleep – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
September 1, 2021

Tanka – Saigyō
January 23, 2023

Thanksgiving – Lynn Ungar
December 23, 2018

That Lives In Us – Rumi
November 23, 2021

The Breeze at Dawn – Rumi
October 16, 2023

The bright field – R.S. Thomas
October 7, 2018

The cure – Albert Huffstickler
February 24, 2019

The cure for it all – Julia Fehrenbacher
September 9, 2018

The Dakini Speaks – Jennifer Welwood
October 1, 2023

The Darkling Thrush – Thomas Hardy
January 7, 2020

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee – N. Scott Momaday
December 1, 2019

The door – Miroslav Holub
July 22, 2018

The earth says – Larry Butler
April 21, 2021

The eyes of the future – Terry Tempest Williams
September 8, 2019

The good news – Thich Nhat Hanh
September 16, 2018

The Guest House – Rumi
September 2, 2019

The Healing Time – Persha Gertler
April 5, 2022

The Hill We Climb – Amanda Gorman
January 28, 2021

The Holy Pause – Julia Fehrenbacher
September 16, 2024

The house of belonging – David Whyte
December 2, 2018

The Invitation – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
November 4, 2018

The Journey – David Whyte
August 26, 2018

The journey – Mary Oliver
October 28, 2018

The Little Duck – Donald Babcock
February 4, 2021

The Lost Words Blessing – Robert Macfarlane
August 23, 2022

The most important thing – Julia Fehrenbacher
July 13, 2022

The Opening of Eyes – David Whyte
April 26, 2020

The Patience of Ordinary Things – Pat Schneider
May 26, 2021

The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
May 26, 2019

The real work – Wendell Berry
April 14, 2019

the recipe of life – rupi kaur
March 9, 2021

The same stream of life – Rabindranath Tagore
February 10, 2019

The second music – Annie Lighthart
September 30, 2018

The Shape of Love – Adyashanti
August 2, 2023

The Shattering – Jeff Foster
July 7, 2021

The Silence – Wendell Berry
June 28, 2020

The Stars Fell Through My Window Tonight – Lauretta Santarossa
April 28, 2019

The summer day – Mary Oliver
August 5, 2018

The Sun – Mary Oliver
January 25, 2022

The Sycamore – Wendell Berry
July 5, 2024

The Thing Is – Ellen Bass
February 16, 2020

The Unbroken – Rashani Réa
May 12, 2021

The way it is – Lynn Ungar
July 1, 2018

The Well – David Whyte
October 21, 2018

The Wonder Is – Jaan Kaplinski
May 24, 2020

The Word – Tony Hoagland
October 30, 2022

Think Like a Tree – Karen I. Shragg
September 7, 2022

This magnificent refuge – Theresa of Avila
June 2, 2019

This Morning I Pray for My Enemies – Joy Harjo
October 13, 2021

Throw the Doors Wide Open – Jane O’Shea
December 15, 2020

To Come Home to Yourself – John O’Donohue
December 27, 2022

To the New Year – W.S. Merwin
January 6, 2019

Today – Daniel Ladinsky rendition of Hafiz
May 12, 2019

Today – Mary Oliver
August 10, 2021

Travelling Light – Pádraig Ó Tuoma
June 10, 2021

UNCONDITIONAL
September 22, 2020

Vijaya – Matty Weingast
March 22, 2022

Waiting – Leza Lowitz
July 21, 2021

Wake Up. Day Calls You – Pedro Salinas y Serrano
May 4, 2021

Walk Slowly – Danna Faulds
May 31, 2021

Walk, Don’t Run – Rob Bell
July 24, 2023

Watching the moon – Izumi Shikibu
March 2, 2021

We Are of a Tribe – Alberto Ríos
February 2, 2020

We Have a Beautiful Mother – Alice Walker
November 17, 2019

We Look With Uncertainty – Anne Hillman
March 5, 2023

What are you waiting for? – Kai Siedenburg
July 14, 2021

What else – Carolyn Locke
November 11, 2018

What if there is no need to change? – Oriah Mountain Dreamer
March 23, 2021

What the Living Do – Marie Howe
March 4, 2024

What to remember when waking – David Whyte
January 12, 2022

What We Need Is Here – Wendell Berry
December 31, 2020

What would happen…? – Jeff Foster
March 30, 2021

What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade – Brad Aaron Modlin
August 21, 2024

When death comes – Mary Oliver
January 20, 2019

When the shoe fits – Thomas Merton
June 29, 2022

Where Everything Is Music – Rumi
March 1, 2020

Who shall bear hope – Marge Piercy
January 13, 2021

Who turns? – Karen Maezen Miller
August 9, 2020

WHY NOT? – Julia Fehrenbacher
April 29, 2024

Wild Geese – Mary Oliver
May 4, 2018

Winter Solstice – Rebecca Parker
December 23, 2020

Within the body you are wearing – Robert K. Hall
May 31, 2020

Witness – Denise Levertov
September 2, 2018

Words – Shinkichi Takahashi
March 3, 2019

You reading this, be ready – William Stafford
January 27, 2019

You see, I want a lot – Reiner Maria Rilke
May 3, 2018

You Who Let Yourselves Feel – Rainer Maria Rilke
September 2, 2023

You, the Unbreakable Water – John Roedel
March 18, 2024

Your Natural Soul – Clare Dubois
May 2, 2023

Zen Poem – Ryokan
September 7, 2021