Poetry of presence : an anthology of mindfulness poems / Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson, editors.

The invitation / Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby Wilson
On how to pick and eat poems / Phyllis Cole-Dai
The poems
A community of the spirit / Rumi
Ancient language / Hannah Stephenson
Sifter / Naomi Shihab Nye
The way it is / Lynn Ungar
Lie down / Nancy Paddock
The patience of ordinary things / Pat Schneider
Bali Hai calls to mama / Marilyn Nelson
The second music / Annie Lighthart
Untitled (This is what was bequeathed us) / Gregory Orr
A little stone in the middle of the road, in Florida / Muriel Rukeyser
Meditation on a grapefruit / Craig Arnold
The cure for it all / Julia Fehrenbacher
The word / Tony Hoagland
Sunday afternoon / Nancy Ann Schaefer
When I am among the trees / Mary Oliver
Praise song / Barbara Crooker
Lessons from darkness / Anita Barrows
Thinking / Danusha Laméris
The quiet listeners / Laura Foley
Lost / David Wagoner
Blackbirds / Julie Cadwallader Staub
We are of a tribe / Alberto Ríos
Untitled (The guest is inside you) / Kabir
Take love for granted / Jack Ridl
Love after love / Derek Walcott
A sacrament / Paulann Petersen
This morning / David Budbill
In the middle / Barbara Crooker
Brotherhood / Octavio Paz
Under ideal conditions / Al Zolynas
Prayer for the dead / Stuart Kestenbaum
a song with no end / Charles Bukowski
Longing / Julie Cadwallader Staub
Afterwards / William Stafford
Still life at dusk / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Getting up early / Anne Porter
Testimony / Rebecca Baggett
A gift / Denise Levertov
What's in the temple? / Tom Barrett
Lakol Wicoun / Lydia Whirlwind Soldier
Visiting mountains / Ted Kooser
A brief détente / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Love for other things / Tom Hennen
The offering / Laura Foley
The bare arms of trees / John Tagliabue
Still / A.R. Ammons
The owl cries at night / Freya Manfred
Fluent / John O'Donohue
Midlife / Julie Cadwallader Staub
This day / Jimmy Santiago Baca
Versions of Ghalib: Ghazal I / Ghalib
A momentary creed / W.S. Merwin
Because even the word obstacle is an obstacle / Alison Luterman
Mind wanting more / Holly J. Hughes
Instructions / Sheri Hostetler
Stone / Danusha Laméris
The mosquito among raindrops / Teddy Macker
One heart / Li-Young Lee
Winter poem / Nikki Giovanni
Camas lilies / Lynn Unger
Saint Francis and the sow / Galway Kinnell
Evening star / Charles Goodrich
Miracle fair / Wislawa Szymborska
Feather at midday / Sister Dang Nghiem
Postscript / Seamus Heaney
The muse is a little girl / Marjorie Saiser
How to be a poet / Wendell Barry
Keeping quiet / Pablo Neruda
On the necessity of snow angels for the well-being of the world / Grace Butcher
When I taught her how to tie her shoes / Penny Harter
I am going to start living like a mystic / Edward Hirsch
The uncertainty principle / Kathleen Norris
Now is the time / Hafiz
The place where we are right / Yehuda Amichai
Earthworms / Lynn Ungar
A poem for my daughter / Teddy Macker
Gracias / Grace / Rafael Jesús González
Late fragment / Raymond Carver
Minobimaadizi / Kimberly Blaeser
Zazen on Ching-t'ing Mountain / Li Po
You are there / Erica Jong
Learning from the trees / Grace Butcher
Savasana: corpse pose / Marianne Murphy Zarzana
Surprised by evening / Robert Bly
Rain on water / Freya Manfred
Trough / Judy Sorum Brown
One's ship comes in / Joe Paddock
Then too there is this / J. Allyn Rosser
Ich liebe meines wesens dunkelstunden (I love the dark hours of my being) / Rainer Maria Wilke
Burning the journals / Robyn Sarah
Flowering / Linda Buckmaster
The moment / Margaret Atwood
Wakarusa medicine wheel / Denise Low
Rankin ridge / Linda M. Hasselstrom
Listen deeply / Dick Allen
Soundings / Joyce Sutphen
the door / Miroslav Holub
Meeting the light completely / Jane Hirshfield
Rutabaga / Laura Grace Weldon
Think of others / Mahmoud Darwish
Twilight / Louise Glück
Instructions for the journey / Pat Schneider
Plate
Al Zolynas
I will keep broken things / Alice Walker
The way it is / Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
The bright field / R.S. Thomas
The good news / Thich Nhat Hanh
Sweet darkness / David Whyte
For the sake of strangers / Dorianne Laux
The thing is / Ellen Bass
The cure / Albert Huffstickler
Consider the space between the stars / Linda Pastan
Winter Grace / Patricia Fargnoli
Solstice / Robyn Sarah
My father at the piano / Mary O'Connor
Parallel the care the dancer takes / Hafiz
Another ocean / Ruby R. Wilson
Entrance / Rainer Maria RIlke
Saying our names / Marianne Murphy Zarzana
Walking a field into evening / Larry Smith
Sometimes, I am startled out of myself / Barbara Crooker
Blue Herons / Twyla M. Hansen
No fishing / David Allan Evans
Wooden boats / Judy Sorum Brown
Putting in a window / John Brantingham
Moon / Billy Collins
The last things I'll remember / Joyce Sutphen
When I am wise / Mary Gray
Trees / Howard Nemerov
Moth koan / Richard Schiffman
At the teahouse, 6 am / Holly J. Hughes
In the plowboy's produce market / Donna Hilbert
The moment / Marie Howe
Fog / Twyla M. Hansen
No more same old silly love songs / Neil Carpathios
An observation / May Sarton
Wage peace / Judyth Hill
What else / Carolyn Locke
On pain / Kahlil Gibran
The joins / Chana Bloch
Companion for life / Hafiz
Bedside manners / Christopher Wiseman
To have without holding / Marge Piercy
For calling the spirit back from wandering the Earth in its human feet / Joy Harjo
Mimesis / Fady Joudah
There was a time I would reject those / Muhyiddin Ibn Al-'Arabi
Journey / Linda Hogan
On pilgrimage / Czeslaw Milosz
In early evening / Kirsten Dierking
Seas / Juan Ramón Jiménez
blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton
Smart Cookie / Richard Schiffman
Notes on the poems
About the poets.