Tanya says - ​ These two calming poems appeal to me because I find nature and sunlight a kind of soothing balm on my ‘troubles’. Life doesn’t always go the way we plan or wish it to,  and these poems remind me to be kind to myself about that
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I go among the trees and sit still – Wendell Berry
 I go among the trees and sit still
And my stirring becomes quiet
Around me like circles on water
My tasks lie in their places
Where I left them, asleep like cattle
Then what I am afraid of comes
I live for a while in it’s sight
What I fear in it leaves it
And the fear of it leaves me
It sings and I hear its song.

When I am among the trees – Mary Oliver 
 Around me the trees stir their leaves
And call out stay a while
The light flows from their branches
And they call again “it’s simple”
They say and you too have come
Into the world to do this, to go easy
To be filled with light and to shine”
 

Andrea says - I find this poem very comforting, like the feeling of taking a walk with a good friend. I love how it invites us to connect with the natural world as a way to get out of our heads for a moment. 

Wild geese
by Mary Oliver 

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.