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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:14

#PoemOfTheDay | Every day as a wide field, every page by Naomi Shihab Nye

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I know a lot of people in my life right now, including myself, who are in a deep period of transition which can feel quite uncomfortable and difficult. And when I was working out today, I was thinking about what has comforted me throughout these transitions. And it's often writing and poetry sometimes feels like a really, really brief sort of energizing, yet also calming moment to take that brings me back to the present moment and all the things to enjoy in the present moment. Since it's fleeting

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Bowie Rowan
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One standing outside staring at a tree gentles our eyes we cheer to see fireflies winking again where have our friends been all the long hours? Minds stretching beyond the field become their own skies windows, doors grow more important look through a word swing that sentence wide open kneeling outside to find sturdy green glistening blossoms under the breeze that carries us silently
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Bowie Rowan
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What else did we give each other from such distances? Breath of syllables sing to me from your balcony please befriend me in the deep space when you paused for a poem it could reshape the day you had just been living
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