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Summer - by Alexander McCall Smith

{ Poem }

Where heather and Scots pines
Remind us of evenings past
When the world was less a place of wrong,

Naming - by Gillian K. Ferguson

{ Poem }

___________ –
/
/ your name is the print
/ love has made in the world,
/
/ your body the growing home
/ your spirit has made upon…

The Beginning of a New Song - by Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

Let her new river shine on a day
That is fresh and glittering and contemporary;

Let it be true to itself and to its origins
Inventive, original, philosophical

New Every Morning - by Susan Coolidge

{ Poem }

Every day is a fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And, spite of old sorrow and older sinning,
And puzzles forecasted and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again.

The Darkling Thrush - by Thomas Hardy

{ Poem }

At once a voice arose among
The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited

When the Times Darken - by Bertolt Brecht

{ Poem }

When the times darken / will there be singing even then? / There will be singing even then. / Of…

Sala de Esperanza - by Lawrence Hergott, MD

{ Poem }

The sign on the hospital wall
/ identifying the space
/ begins with a Spanish phrase—
/ sala de espera,
/ waiting room.
/
/ A more symbolic phrase
/ may have deeper…