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Community Through Poetry: July 2024 : Bursts of Coming Home to Yourself

Poetry

July 2024 : Bursts of Coming Home to Yourself

Bursts of Coming Home to Yourself

July 18, 2024

Readings and discussion on personal growth, self-knowledge, self-acceptance, and finding your true self.

Featured Quote: “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself” – Miles Davis.
 

Featured Poem: “Love After Love” by Derek Walcott.

Readings and Links

Love After Love – Derek Walcott
http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/walcott_loveafterlove.html

El Florida Room – Richard Blanco
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56065/el-florida-room

The Light That Came to Lucille Clifton – Lucille Clifton
http://mondaypoems.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-light-that-came-to-lucille-clifton.html

Romanesque Arches – Tomas Tranströmer
https://intrinsicheart.com/romanesque-arches/

To Come Home to Yourself – John O’Donohue
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1316144-to-come-home-to-yourself-may-all-that-is-unforgiven