Poetry Thursday

I discovered this poem in a book called Loving-Kindness : The Revolutionary Art of Happiness by Sharon Salzberg. It's a book that is very soothing to the soul. This poem my yoga teacher often reads to us at the beginning of class when we are lying on our mats and breathing deep. It's a nice way to take it in.

The poem was written by Galway Kinnell

The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don't flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;
though sometimes it is necessary
to reteach a thing its loveliness,
to put a hand on the brow
of the flower,
and retell it in words and in touch,
it is lovely
until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing


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