by Daniel Escobar

I was put on this earth

to add my own

by John O’Donohue

I bless the night that nourished my heart

To set the ghosts of longing free

by Allen Ginsberg

The weight of the world

is love.

by Hafiz

Now is the time to know

That all that you do is sacred.

by Charles Bukowski

your life is your life

don't let it be clubbed into

by Reinhold Niebuhr

God grant me

the serenity,

by Hannah Emerson

Please try to go

to hell frequently

by Emory Hall

Let my gardens speak for me when I am gone

Let them speak in

by Assata Shakur

I believe in living.

I believe in the spectrum

by Nina Erin Hofmeijer

I grant you permission to fall apart.

here,

by Hala Alyan

Can you diagnose fear?

The red tree blooming from uterus to

by Derek Walcott

The time will come

when, with elation

by Danna Faulds

Settle in the here and now.

Reach down into the center

by Dorothy Hunt

Do you think peace requires an end to war?

Or tigers eating only vegetables?

by Julia Fehrenbacher

Let's forget the world for a while

fall back and back

by Jane Hirshfield

Even now,

decades after,