Journey Daily with a Compelling Poem
Nature can help soothe many wounds.
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Music and song can be found everywhere.
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Brilliant Amaryllis-red can help brighten the gray of winter.
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The simplest of things can become quite frustrating.
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Our mothers will always be with us.
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Stories can survive years beyond the people who record them.
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Life is a series of conversations.
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Don't be afraid of the wide world!
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Music can be heard everywhere if we would simply listen.
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As children grow up and move away, the change can be painful.
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Dorianne Laux’s fifth collection, The Book of Men, was awarded The Paterson Prize. Her fourth book of poems, Facts About the Moon won The Oregon Book Award and was short-listed for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Laux is also the author of Awake; What We Carry, a finalist for the National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Smoke; as well as a fine small press edition, The Book of Women. She is the co-author of the celebrated text The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Only As the Day is Long: New and Selected, was released by W.W. Norton in early 2019. She is a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
Permission to read “What I Wouldn’t Do,” granted by the author and The Field Office, Vaughan Ashlie Fielder, Founder.