Of Being

“Poetry’s work is the clarification and magnification of being.”― Jane Hirshfield

“There is a minute in the day, a minute for everyone, though most everyone is too distracted to notice its arrival. A minute of gifts coming from the world like birthday presents. A minute given to every day that seems to create a golden bubble available to everyone.”― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

A beautiful work in progress
Unfolding and unfurling
Without end
Always beginning somewhere new
Growing, often slowly, always surely
Certainly, on time, though rarely our clock
Let your beauty unfold and the world’s too
Most importantly, notice
Then celebrate
A beautiful work in progress
Carry on…

“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”― Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart