Faith

I want to write about Faith

About the way the moon rises over a cold snow night after night

Faithful even in its fading from fullness

Slowly becoming that last curving and impossible sliver of light before the final darkness

But I have no faith myself

I do not give it the smallest entry

Let this then

My small poem, like a new moon,

Slender and barely open, be the first prayer that opens me to Faith

– David Whyte
 
 
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The Red Wheelbarrow
(William Carlos Williams, 1923)

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white chickens

This poem is my constant companion.

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