A good poem will interest, excite, and move you. You don’t need to “try” to like a good poem. So if a poem does not move you… move on! There is so much poetry, you can be picky.

A greatefulness practice can transform your life. But what happens when feeling grateful seems difficult, or even impossible? Here's a story and a poem that may help. (PS: GRATEFUL.ORG is an amazing resource for your gratefulness practice, co-f...

Some poems are so good... they can give us a kind of fresh start. Deliver gifts for the head and heart. Help us change our minds and moods...

"Heroes are all about straightening things out.The courageous love the curves as much as the straights..."–Dale Biron

That old kind of hope, "hope 1.0" is no longer up to the task. It is being replaced, and not a second too soon...

Use this poem to regain your center, agency, and way... even in these most difficult times!

"Friends, we’re trying to understand, as one, as many, as Mother Earth.And it can be as daunting as catching smoke with our bare hands."–Dale Biron

Asking Me To "Stand With The Dems"You keep asking for more money, and for me to “stand with the Dems.” I’ll stand with the Dems when they actually take a stand for us all. I’ll stand with the Dems when they break a few rules, peacefully ...

We are helpless mapmakers. We can’t stop drawing lines, creating meaning, and shaping stories to explain the world around us. It’s how we navigate life—through beliefs, assumptions, and the mental landscapes we construct. But if we combine this...

If we look inside ourselves, each of us has places in our lives of brokenness, sorrow, and grief. Places that have strung us out to dry... What then? That's when this week's poem comes in handy.

Can a humorous poem make serious points? Yes. Poems can help us make sense of the world. Poems can help us ask new, sometimes uncomfortable questions. A just right poem can help us write whole new ways of seeing and feeling the world, and what'...

How To Be Less Fearful (to remind myself) "What if we, are the only Calvary that’s actually coming?What if the kindness we seek, we must bring ourselves...?"–Dale Biron

Finding moments of sanity, refuge, and even joy, is more critical than ever. This week's special poem is a potent reminder of this...

Listen to one of the most popular poems, from one of the most popular poets in the last 100 years...

"There is no requirement to read, or hear, or write anything! But why not?  If I were empowered by The Great Godsof Permission, I would provide you vast Amazon rivers of it. Baptize, forgive, and bless you with it. Af...

Of all the things poems can do, one of them is to help us work with catastrophic loss, to grieve and make sense of the senseless...

We would be shocked and eventually saddened to hear someone say this to us. Everyone has a favorite song, right? Of course, they do! But today, let's go beyond our favorite songs and ponder our favorite poems. I want us to be equally shocked if...

How can we weave more beauty and meaning into our lives in 2025, in the face of so many profound challenges and difficulties?

Thanks so much to each of you who have been on this poetry-based journey during 2024. In case you're in need of a collection of essays that hitches up some amazing poems with those traits that are most needed by leaders, here it is. The book is...

"The world is not made of atoms but of stories," said poet Muriel Rukeyser. This means good, beautiful, pro-social stories (which are often poems!) can help overcome the most unjust, anti-social, and destructive stories. Here's a poem that does...

Perhaps we need to be a bit more humble, more careful, before we declare that we've won or lost. In this cast, the west. Turns out winning and losing may have everything to do with our timeframe, and that these binary categories we so often use...

Your true story is important. I don’t know its contents and contours, but I’m certain it exists. It reflects the world, and your uniquely entangled and wondrous place within it. Your true story lies deep within your body, at a kind of soul leve...

Let's start a small, but significant political revolution with poetry. When someone asks you for your money and support, first give your heartfelt ideas, feelings, and opinions about what is right and wrong with politics. If they listen and res...

Write your own special declaration to Mother Earth and to the sanctity of your own interior self, meaning your heart and imagination...

For all those who are hurting, upset, and dismayed after the election...