Poet Jane Hirshfield said "... the feeling I have about poem-writing (is) that it is always an exploration, of discovering something I didn't already know. Who I am shifts from moment to moment, year to year. What I can perceive does as well. A new poem peers into mystery, into whatever lies just beyond the edge of knowable ground."
I bring a different poem to the writing classes each week, not only to inspire but to introduce new poets to the group members.
Somehow by Daniel Berrigan
I kiss a book sometimes like a bride or the gospel or the land, after wild seas grant me a man again. The things we love! women, the truth, planets— like flowers through ruins like brides through deserts like shore through murderous mist out of wreckage and rancor. Somehow! ~ from Poetry Magazine, (October, 1967)