Exploring the importance of kindness and compassion, what that means, how it gets expressed, and the reverberations and implications of every act of kindness, large or small. A featured poem is Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Kindness,” written after being left alone and destitute in an unfamiliar country.
Bursts of KINDNESS AND COMPASSION
Readings & Links, Thursday OCTOBER 20, 2022
Poems:
Kindness – Naomi Shihab Nye https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=735
Every Seed of Kindness – Annabel Cruz https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/seeds-of-kindness
Selected Tanka Poems from Urban Tumbleweed: Notes from a Tanka Diary – Harryette Mullen
A few samples from Harryette Mullen’s book of tankas are available at http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2013/11/14/borrowing-light-from-the-moon-review-of-urban-tumbleweed-by-harryette-mullen-a-anupama/
Perfect Joy – Chuang Tzu (translated by Thomas Merton) Click here for the poem, from Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation, edited by Roger Housden.
The Raincoat – Ada Limón – https://poets.org/poem/raincoat
