Article:7 Surprising Benefits of Reading Poetry

Howard Thurman

• I Will Sing a New Song

Ada Limon – Wonder Woman (Peter Rueh.)

Pádraig Ó Tuama Poetry Unbound HERE

Comes the Dawn – Veronica Shorffstall (Marianne B shared) – – “decorate your own soul”

Judy Sorum Brown – The Trough (Marianne B shared) – – similarity with Transitions book

Maya Angelou – Still I Rise

Corrie ten Boom – Life is But a Weaving (Tapestry Poem)

Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken

Langston Hughes – Dreams

Rudyard Kipling – If (click on the oral recitation of this one – very impactful!)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• De Profundis (XXIII in particular, referenced from Grama Hettie’s devotional)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• A Psalm of Life
• The Poet’s Calendar
• Database of most/all of his poems

John O’Donohue

• For the Dying
• For Grief

Rumi

• The Guest House

Father’s Day – from MWPC poetry group

• That Man Is a Success – By Robert Louis Stevenson
• He Is Gone – by David Harkins

A Friend’s Greeting – Edgar Albert Guest

Retriever – by Barbara Crooker (thanks Marilyn!)

John Donne

• Batter my heart, three person’d God (Holy Sonnet 14) – Trinity

Waldo Williams – “The Peacemakers” on p. 1199 in Celtic Daily Prayer: Book Two

Bruce Cockburn song lyrics

• Pacing the Cage

Gerard Manley Hopkins – God’s Grandeur (Marianne B. – seen in Ross D. “Believe”)