Two Poems by Kathryn Hunt
Published in Long Way Through Ruin, ©2013 DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE IN NORTH AMERICA Even in spring she is there among the horses, the pale crocus. Even in rain. She is there and she is quiet. I saw her...
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This poem, copyright 1976, starts off a book of poetry by one of my favorite poets, David Whyte. The House of Belonging, first published in 1997, is a delightful collection of poems related to the...
View ArticleWhat to Remember When Waking
What to Remember When Waking by David Whyte ©1999 Many Rivers Press In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and...
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The Journey ©1986 by Mary Oliver (Atlantic Monthly Press) One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice – though the whole house...
View ArticleWhere We Live
In 2011, our family celebrated four weddings. First, my sister got married on January 1. Then, my daughter got married, on April 18. Next, my niece got married, on June 12. Finally, yesterday, on...
View ArticleWedding Poems Nature • Culture • Adventure
My daughter, Bryn Rodriguez, and her husband Andr’s, shared the following poems at their wedding on April 18, 2011 in Costa Rica. The second poem, Culture, was written by my wife, Megan...
View ArticleThe Swan
One of my favorite poets, David Whyte, introduced me to this poem in the year 2000, when he spoke to the International Coach Federation Annual Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia. He later...
View ArticleAutobiography in 5 Short Chapters
One of my coaching colleagues recently shared the following ode which speaks, in a way, to why coaching works. We assist clients to walk down different streets. Enjoy! Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters...
View ArticleMany Miles & When Death Comes
Many Miles ©2004 by Mary Oliver The feet of the heron, under those bamboo stems, hold the blue body, the great beak above the shallows of the pond. Who could guess their patience? Sometimes the toes...
View ArticleTwo Tramps in Mud Time
Two Tramps in Mud Time by Robert Frost • 1934 New York, Spiral Press Out of the mud two strangers came And caught me splitting wood in the yard, And one of them put me off my aim By hailing cheerily...
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