God – Brian Doyle
By purest chance I was out in our street
when the kindergarten
Bus mumbled past going slow and I
looked up just as all seven
Kids on my side of the bus looked at
me and I grinned and they
Lit up and all this crap about God being
dead and where is God
And who owns God and who hears
God better than whom is the
Most egregiously stupid crap
imaginable because if you want to
See God and have God see you and
have this mutual perception
Be completely untrammeled by blather
and greed and comment,
Go stand in the street as the
kindergarten bus murmurs past. I’m
Not kidding and this is not a metaphor.
I am completely serious.
Everyone babbles about God but I saw
God this morning just as
The bus slowed down for the stop on
Maple Street. God was six
Girls and one boy with a bright green
and purple stegosaurus hat.
Of course God would wear a brilliantly
colored tall dinosaur hat!
If you were the Imagination that
dreamed up everything that ever
Was in this blistering perfect terrible
world, wouldn’t you wear a
Hat celebrating some of the wildest
most amazing developments?
Poetry
- A Dog Has Died – Pablo Neruda
- A Moment of Silence – Emmanuel Ortiz
- A Quiet Life – Baron Wormser
- A Reminder – found and slightly edited from the webpage of a Methodist Church
- A Wreath to the Fish – Nancy Willard
- Alone – Jack Gilbert
- Another Planet – Dunya Mikhail
- Be Kind, Rewind – Neil Silberblatt
- Big Conversation – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- Black Momma Math – Kimberly Jae
- Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton – Daniel B. Summerhill
- Capitol Air – Allen Ginsburg
- Combat Primer – Charles Bukowski
- Crow Blacker Than Ever – Ted Hughes
- Dismiss Whatever Insults Your Own Soul – Walt Whitman
- Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads – Martha Rivera-Garrido
- Enriching the Earth – Wendell Berry
- Failing and Flying – Jack Gilbert
- Feel Mo – Michael Korson
- Footprints In Your Heart – Eleanor Roosvelt
- For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet – Joy Harjo
- Forgetfulness – Billy Collins
- God – Brian Doyle
- God Says Yes To Me – Kaylin Haught
- Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg
- Half-light – Dāshaun Washington
- Homesick: A Plea for Our Planet – Andrea Gibson
- How Poetry Comes to Me – Ruah Bull
- How She Heard It – Todd Davis
- How to Slay a Dragon – Rebecca Dupas
- I Talked to a Lady – Tanya Howden
- I Think – Matt Moberg
- If You Knew – Ellen Bass
- Instructions before visiting Earth – James McCrae
- KINDNESS – Naomi Shihab Nye
- Love is Not All – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Men – Maya Angelou
- Millennium Blessing – Stephen Levine
- my brain and heart divorced ~ john roedel
- My Country – Tony Hoagland
- Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges – Sam Sax
- Old Man Eating Alone – Billy Collins
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek excerpt – Annie Dillard
- Psalm for the Slightly Tilted – Ilya Kaminsky
- Relax – Ellen Bass
- Shoveling Snow With Buddha – Billy Collins
- Sleeping in the Forest – Mary Oliver
- Small Stack of Books – Blake Nelson
- Soliloquy of the Solipsist – Sylvia Plath
- spring – Safia Elhillo
- Squirrel – Lynn Ungar
- Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
- The Best Poem Ever – Brian Doyle
- The Caveman’s Lament – Brian Bilston
- The Four Noble Truths – Jake Onami Agnew
- The History of One Tough Motherfucker – Charles Bukowski
- The Layers – Stanley Kunitz
- The Long Boat – Stanley Kunitz
- The Moon is Full Tonight – Billy Collins
- The Shyness – Sharon Olds
- The War Works Hard – Dunya Mikhail
- The World is Both Burning and Blooming – Karen Salmansohn
- To Diego with Love – Frida Kalko
- Tryst with Death – Gina Puorro
- Two poems – Wendell Berry
- Two poems – Yehuda Amichai
- Two-bloods – Rolando Kattan
- Wage Peace – Mary Oliver
- War Primer – Bertholt Brecht
- We are the Trees – J Raymond
- We will meet, don’t be in such a rush – Hala alShrouf
- What I Learned From Listening to a Stutterer – Ellen Zorin
- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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