Poems

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Listed below, alphabetically by title, are poems written or selected by Participants and Educators. These were chosen in the hope that they might inspire your choices for growth.

If you would like to submit a poem for consideration, contact a PRH Educator.

Acceptance

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship.

It allows the other to be the other. It puts no barriers where life should be.

It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than they are.

It simply opens its arms to hold the weary and opens its heart to hear the broken and opens its mind to see the invisible.
Joan Chittister, OSB, Lecturer and Educator, Erie, PA


Being Together

When we met, did we want
to do something together?
Or did we want
to be something together?

Being near,
we felt joy.
We delighted in each other,
without purpose, goal or plan.

Effortlessly,
we helped each other to feel,
and mysteriously,
our self-knowledge grew.

Our hearts opened,
and stayed open
as we talked,
laughed, and touched.
Being flowed between us.

This flow arose,
not while planning great deeds,
but while simply facing each other
and opening.
Tria Reed, Minister, Tacoma, WA