Tag Archives: John O’Donohue

The Bigness of Small Poems – #24 in a Series – The Poetic Wisdom of John O’Donohue

December 22, 2016 – 8:08 pm

Fluent I would love to live Like a river flows, Carried by the surprise Of its own unfolding John O’Donohue from Conemara Blues, HarperCollins, 2001 Short and sweet! This poem! […]

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The Secret Life of Things – More Poems and Poets on Paying Attention

December 6, 2014 – 9:59 am

  Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – W is for Whyte

May 17, 2012 – 8:50 am

News Of Death For Tom Charlotte Last night they came with news of death not knowing what I would say. I wanted to say, “The green wind is running through […]

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An Alphabet of Poets – P is for Prado

April 23, 2012 – 3:36 pm

Seduction Poetry catches me with her toothed wheel and forces me to listen, stock still, to her extravagant discourse. Poetry embraces me behind the garden wall, she picks up her […]

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