Index of Themes
An ongoing compendium of all themes featured on Read A Little Poetry
B
- beauty (10)
- becoming (5)
- beginnings (4)
- being broken (3)
- being found (2)
- being human (26)
- being lost (2)
- being named (2)
- being poc (8)
- bird (1)
- birds (11)
- body (25)
D
E
- Edward Hopper (1)
- encouragement (2)
- endings (5)
- eros (1)
- excerpts (1)
- existence (13)
F
- failure (3)
- family (7)
- fear (2)
- feral (1)
- flowers (4)
- forgetting (2)
- forgiveness (3)
- found language (7)
- freedom (2)
- fruits (1)
G
- garden (3)
- grace (13)
- gratitude (17)
- grief (18)
- growing old (12)
- growing up (7)
- growth (7)
K
- kindness (3)
L
- language (14)
- laughter (2)
- letting go (7)
- life (2)
- light (4)
- literature (1)
- living (38)
- longing (2)
- loss (11)
- love (20)
M
- melancholy (1)
- memory (12)
- migration (2)
- mistakes (2)
- moon (15)
- mornings (3)
- mortality (7)
- motivation (1)
- mouth (4)
- music (2)
N
- nature (31)
P
- paying attention (7)
- people (3)
- persistence (12)
- political (2)
- power (2)
- praise (4)
- prayers (5)
Q
- questions (10)
R
- rain (9)
- rapture (1)
- readalittlepoetry (37)
- rebirth (1)
- relationships (24)
- resilience (6)
- rituals (1)
S
T
- tenderness (13)
- the ordinary (1)
- the writing life (1)
- time (11)
- tomorrow (2)
- touch (1)
- transformation (11)
- trees (4)
- truth (2)
U
- universe (6)
W
Y
- yearning (4)
Latest posts
Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver
"I want / to think again of dangerous and noble things
Sunflowers by Jenny George
"Having died / all the way back to the root, I grow again / into a version of the thing I love"
In Winter by Michael Ryan
"are you smiling / at an idea met in a book / the way you smiled with your whole body / the first night we talked?"
I Am Learning to Abandon the World by Linda Pastan
"And every night I give my body up / limb by limb, working upwards / across bone, towards the heart."