As part of the Grunion’s annual exploration of kindness, we asked readers to write a poem expressing their understanding of kindness. We had a good number of entries, showing a wide range of … ...

Finding out who you are outside of them accompanied by the kindness of the people that surround you is the greatest gift. And even when the hurting ends, the thankless kindness does not. For when ...

I have read this wondrous poem very infrequently at weddings ... humility, gratitude, kindness, ... The poem “Love” was included in a 1936 anthology entitled “Best Loved Poems of American ...

As he demonstrates throughout “The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy,” a follow-up collection to his bestselling anthology “How to Love the World,” kindness can be life-altering.

Beautiful poem, kindness always wins Iskra,” one person wrote. Another said: “You’re gorgeous. I had to face the same in my relationship but you’re proving that love is stronger than hate.” ...

Jay Hopler died last week. Illness streaks across this poem from his final collection — but also love. By Jay Hopler Selected by Victoria Chang I always remember these lines in Jay Hopler’s ...

Certain poems take a more despairing tone, as in “An Act of Kindness,” in which a boy muses, “The world is cruel. People have knives,/ And even their teeth look like knives.” ...

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