Skip to content

Psychologist, Counselor, Spiritual Director, and Teacher

  • Home
  • About Kirk
  • Therapy
    • Why Seek Therapy or Counseling
    • Information for Clients
    • Therapeutic Approach
    • Directions
  • The Celtic Center
  • Teaching
  • Inklings (Blog)
  • Books, Movies, and Resources
  • Contact

Category: Poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge – To Nature

On May 18, 2016February 27, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

It may indeed be phantasy when I Essay to draw from all created things Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings; And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie Lessons of love and earnest piety. So let it be; and if the wide world rings In mock of this belief, it brings Nor …

Continue reading Samuel Taylor Coleridge – To Nature

Rudyard Kipling – The Way Through the Woods

On May 6, 2016February 28, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods Before they planted the trees. It is underneath the coppice and heath, And the thin anemones. Only the keeper sees That, where the ring-dove …

Continue reading Rudyard Kipling – The Way Through the Woods

Prayer of St. Francis

On December 18, 2015February 28, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry, Soul

This prayer is often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi although that connection is unproven.  It has been used in many forms and has assisted many in their prayerful journey.  Alcoholics Anonymous uses a form of this prayer in recovery work.  We all need this kind of "recovery". Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is …

Continue reading Prayer of St. Francis

Mary Oliver – When Death Comes

On February 12, 2015February 27, 2018 By KirkIn PoetryLeave a comment

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, …

Continue reading Mary Oliver – When Death Comes

Anna Akhmatova – Everything is Plundered

On May 6, 2014February 28, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, Death’s great black wing scrapes the air, Misery gnaws to the bone. Why then do we not despair? By day, from the surrounding woods, cherries blow summer into town; at night the deep transparent skies glitter with new galaxies. And the miraculous comes so close to the ruined, dirty houses …

Continue reading Anna Akhmatova – Everything is Plundered

A.A. Milne – Wind on the Hill

On March 11, 2014February 28, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

No one can tell me, Nobody knows, Where the wind comes from, Where the wind goes. It’s flying from somewhere As fast as it can, I couldn’t keep up with it, Not if I ran. But if I stopped holding The string of my kite, It would blow with the wind For a day and …

Continue reading A.A. Milne – Wind on the Hill

Mary Oliver – What Can We Do About God

On April 10, 2013February 27, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

what can we do about god, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day? what can we do about all those graves in the woods, in old pastures in small towns in the bellies of cities? god’s heavy footsteps through the braken through the bog through the dark wood his breath like a swollen river his switch, …

Continue reading Mary Oliver – What Can We Do About God

Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet

On August 17, 2012February 27, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, …

Continue reading Rainer Maria Rilke – Letters to a Young Poet

Mary Oliver – Wild Geese

On May 14, 2012February 27, 2018 By KirkIn Poetry

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 …

Continue reading Mary Oliver – Wild Geese

Rumi – I was dead, then alive

On June 21, 2009February 27, 2018 By KirkIn PoetryLeave a comment

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. He said, 'You're not mad enough. You don't belong in this house.' I went wild and had to be tied up. He said, 'Still not wild enough to stay …

Continue reading Rumi – I was dead, then alive

Posts navigation

Newer posts

Appointments

Click here to make or change a therapy or spiritual direction appointment

Upcoming Events:

Landscape of the Soul (The Celtic Center) – May 11-13

And please visit The Celtic Center for information on teachings, retreats, and the certificate in Spiritual Direction.

Contact

e-mail: Click here to send an e-mail to Kirk.

206.963.0364

Dr. Kirk Webb
6800 E. Greenlake Way N.  #255
Seattle, WA 98115

directions: Click here for directions to the office.

Recent Posts

  • Transitionary Time
  • Landscape of the Soul – Retreat, May 11-13
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Rumi – on Silence
  • Suffering Isn’t

Enter your email address to follow Kirk's blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Categories

  • Nature (5)
  • Poetry (20)
  • Retreats & Teachings (1)
  • Soul (26)
  • Uncategorized (1)

Pages

  • About Kirk
  • Therapy
    • Information for Clients
    • Why Seek Therapy or Counseling
    • Therapeutic Approach
    • Directions
  • Teaching
  • Books, Movies, and Resources
  • Contact
  • The Celtic Center
  • Welcome
  • Inklings (Blog)
Website Built with WordPress.com.