Turn to comforting poems about death to find strength and encouragement, or as a meaningful way to let someone know they are ...

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"If I must die, let it bring hope, let it be a tale." This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet ...

The writing in this poem is taut, graceful and intelligent in a way that shows the mystical themes of life, including love, death, the mind and body, the church and Christ, and idealism.

Thursday will be a National Day of Mourning. And we should be mourning. Not the death of Jimmy Carter at 100, but that his ...