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I've never heard it performed like that (opens the original)
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“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again” C. S. LewisA poem you loved at seven can fit oddly when you try it on again. The sleeves seem shorter. The colors have softened. Yet something of the person who first gave it to you is still there.You know the words. You may even remember where the page turns. Then someone reads it aloud, and a line you once hurried through makes you pause.What have you lived through that lets you hear it now? <a href="https://augmentedman.subs
A Poem You Can Carry (opens the original)
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There’s a poem that gives celery a harder time than it gives you. It allows for doubt, silliness, and being spectacularly wrong. Yet it asks quite a lot of you, empathy, generosity, warmth. How does it get away with that? Look at the small word that keeps returning before each wish. Try taking it out, and you’ll hear why it matters. Read more
Which parts of a difficult day are demands we add ourselves? (opens the original)
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart…sound generous until you try to follow them at the end of a difficult day. There is work left, someone you meant to call, a conversation you wish had gone differently. Even a cup of tea can feel premature. What, exactly, are you waiting to finish before you let yourself rest? Somewhere between what happened today and what you think it says about you, a soothing poem might step in <a href="https://augmentedman.substack.com/p/which-parts-of-a-di
He knew you'd be watching the same sunset (opens the original)
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“And you, who will cross from shore to shore”He is speaking to you. To that one person who hears his words, wherever you may be sitting right now.This poem was published in 1856 and has been making such an impact on strangers ever since. A few stanzas later, he asks you for a small favor that you can do tonight without even leaving your home.He was 37 years old and self-published his first book because no publisher would take it on.The entire poem is based on a single word <a href="https://augme
Keep the Poem Where You Keep the Medicine (opens the original)
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It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow oldThe first line draws us in, keeping us right there.A little further on, the poet turns around and gives you a tip. It’s simple; you can put it into practice this very afternoon. It’s specific, you’ll know right away if it works for youHe was 30 when he did it himself, and everyone he respected told him he was finished.The tip consists of 2 words Read more
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