“How To Be a Poet” is a poem by Wendell Berry. The poem is supposed to be about reminding himself how to be a poet, but when you really read into it you find it’s really about being an apt human being. He speaks about a few abilities which human beings can have which in… Read more

“Today, When I Could Do Nothing” is a poem by Jane Hirshfield about her experiences not being able to go outside for the first time. Specifically, it’s about her rescuing an ant and returning it back to where it belongs. To me, it speaks about the loneliness of staying at home because of the fact… Read more

“Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes is a poem about continuing through life even when there is an obstacle, using a staircase as a metaphor.  Specifically, it’s a mother telling her son that her life wasn’t easy and neither will his, so he must persevere and keep going. To be precise, it’s about the struggles… Read more

Kindness is a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye detailing how beneficial it is to experience kindness and how useful a tool it is for us humans. Also, she tells how, to experience the importance of kindness, we must also experience the negativity sorrow can bring, before we can truly understand the value of kindness. In… Read more