3. Working for world peace, creative dialogue , and rebuilding the human spirit: The global poetry movement supports the promotion of peace Global and intercultural dialogue is healing and strengthening the human spirit towards its higher goals, through poetry as a language. Creativity, a source o...
the Japanese call it, their word for the dancing shadow of patterns created by sunlight piercing the rustle of leaves, trying to capture a feeling that’s so hard to explain – like my feelings about this day as the sun finally emerges through cloud, making the whole garden sparkle as thou...
About this book Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he ...
Poetry quotes about the world around us 19. “What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry — but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it wou...
(During the Spring of the year, we introduce the word “anthology.”) The last week of school, children talk about all the places they love to read. Then once again, we illustrate another Reading Is Fun page. This final copy becomes the back cover of the student’s “I Can Read” ...
It mentions that Hummert who was once a Maryknoll priest, is an enthusiast in protecting the environment and his haiku or Japanese poetry usually expresses in pithy form sentiments about nature. Hummert claims that his sympathy for nature credit to his upbringing in rural Illinois where he spent...
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Or the low rumblings earth’s regions under; And sometimes like a gentle whispering Of all the secrets of some wond’rous thing That breathes about us in the vacant air; So that we look around with prying stare, Perhaps to see shapes of light, aerial lymning, ...
1The Grasshopper and the CricketJohn KeatsThe poetry of earth is never dead.When all the birds are faint with the hot sunAnd hide in cooling trees,a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new?mown meadThat is the Grasshopper’s.He takes the leadIn summer luxury;he has never done...
Until recently we have associated nature with permanence – the permanence against which we can measure our own finite sojourn on Earth. Nature was there before and it's going to be there afterwards. However, we've come to realize that our human ...