Poems for a Mood
How are you feeling?
calm
* In April by Rainer Maria Rilke
* The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
* Tea by Leila Chatti
* Mermaid Song by Kim Addonizio
grateful
* Butter by Elizabeth Alexander
* Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
* Praise the Rain by Joy Harjo
* Meteor Shower by Clint Smith
* From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
concerned
* What it Must Have Felt Like by Ada Limón
* Sanctuary by Jean Valentine
* Remember by Joy Harjo
needing motivation
* Good Bones by Maggie Smith
* Four Sonnets about Food by Adrienne Su
* Everything is Waiting for You by David Whyte
* Book of Genesis by Kei Miller
* Something You Should Know by Clint Smith
* Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón
lonely
* Lighthouse Keeping by Kay Ryan
* Shy Boy by Greg Sellers
* Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
proud
* Mother Country by Richard Blanco
* If-- by Rudyard Kipling
* Invictus by William Ernest Henley
* The Song of the Smoke by W. E. B. Du Bois
* Famous by Naomi Shihab Nye