Hooray Weekly

Time to slow the mind down and listen.  Poetry will do the trick.  Let the three poets and their poems Lee Ann chose for this week's podcast welcome you into their world (which is YOUR world) and lead you to some beautiful, life-affirming and kick-butt conclusions.  Or maybe not even conclusions at all, but entry points for living full and rich days. The three poems in this episode are Maya Angelou's "A Brave and Startling Truth," Kobayashi Issa's "Cricket" and Naomi Shihab Nye's "Famous."  If you'd like, you may follow along as the poems are found below, along with links to the books where they are found.   A Brave and Startling Truth -- Maya Angelou When we come to it When we let the rifles fall from our shoulders And children dress their dolls in flags of truce When land mines of death have been removed And the aged can walk into evenings of peace When religious ritual is not perfumed By the incense of burning flesh And childhood dreams are not kicked awake By nightmares of abuse When we come to it Then