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.
Prayer for Words by Esther Cohen
When I think of words I am one of those people words all over pieces of paper I lose those papers writing words trying to remember small woman in the supermarket she told me her eggplant was the spitting image of Richard Nixon this is my life, although it goes by so quickly especially summers when days more beautiful than beautiful begin and end before I can write them down when I try to tell you about the world and my sitting on the porch I am writing a few things down what I want to tell you is how life, small wonderful bright yellow life how life can happen if you watch and if you try to write it down ~ from The On Being Project (September 13, 2015)