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Wonder
Kerena Joseline
After Tuvia Rubiner
If after everything that has happened you can still hold your heavy heart with all the strength you have left, and brave one day at a time,
if you can still hear those orange- breasted rufous treepies singing on the electric lines at dawn,
and the sparrows with their yellow beaks...
don't be surprised that happiness is watching the answer to your prayers sleeping beautifully beside you,
is feeling the warmth of sunrays entering your living room like hands reaching out to comfort you,
is gawking at the sky turning into a riot of gold,
is drinking in with delight all the tiny details of this incredible world bursting with a million miracles every second.
Take heart, you do not know when and where happiness will flood over you.
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I’m filling the next chapter of One Poem Only and would love to include your work. Send me the poem you wrote and want the world to hear. New this round: if you’d like to read your own poem on the podcast, you can. No need for a perfect studio recording—just a clear audio file recorded in a quiet space. If you choose this option, you’ll submit your poem and an audio file of you reading it. Submissions close Thursday, July 30. I’ll respond by August 12. Whether I read your poem or you read it yourself, I’d love to hear what you’re ready to share.
