"A Thousand Years," by Christina Perri

A Thousand Years

"Fix You," by Coldplay

Fix You

"I Wouldn't Mind," by He Is We

I Wouldn't Mind

"The Night Dances," by Sylvia Plath

The Night Dances

-Sylvia Plath

1              A smile fell in the grass.

2              Irretrievable!

3              And how will your night dances

4              Lose themselves.  In mathematics?

5              Sure pure leaps and spirals –

6              Surely they travel

7              The world forever, I shall not entirely

8              Sit emptied of beauties, the gift

9              Of your small breath, the drenched grass

10           Smell of your sleeps, lilies, lilies.

11           Their flesh bears no relation

12           Cold folds of ego, the calla,

13           And the tiger, embellishing itself –

14           Spots, and a spread of hot petals.

15           The comets

16           Have such a space to cross.

17           Such coldness, forgetfulness.

18           So your gestures flake 0ff –

19           Warm and human, then their pink light

20           Bleeding and peeling

21           Through the black amnesias of heaven.

22           Why am I given

23           These lamps, these planets

24           Failing like blessings, like flakes

25           Six-sided, white

26           On my eyes, my lips, my hair

27           Touching and melting.

28           Nowhere.

"Forever and Always," by Parachute

Forever and Always

"Ode to Enchanted Light," by Pablo Neruda

Ode to Enchanted Light

- Pablo Neruda  (translated by Ken Krabbenhoft)

1              Under the trees light

2              has dropped from the top of the sky,

3              light

4              like a green

5              latticework of branches,

6              shining

7              on every leaf,

8              drifting down like clean

9              white sand.

10           A cicada sends

11           its sawing song

12           high into the empty air.

13           The world is

14           a glass overflowing

15           with water.

"Cry," by Mandy Moore

Cry

"Zombie," by The Cranberries

Zombie

"Blessing the Boats," by Lucille Clifton

Blessing the Boats

-Lucille Clifton

(at St. Mary’s)

1          may the tide

2          that is entering even now

3          the lip of our understanding

4          carry you out

5          beyond the face of fear

6          may you kiss the wind then turn from it

7          certain that it will

8          love your back             may you

9          open your eyes to water

10          water waving forever

11        and may you in your innocence

12        sail through this to that

"Come Home," by One Republic

Come Home

"The Coin," by Sara Teasdale

The Coin

-Sara Teasdale

1              Into my heart’s treasury

2                              I slipped a coin

3              That time cannot take

4                              Nor a thief purloin –

5              Oh, better than the minting

6                              Of a gold-crowned king

7              Is the safe-kept memory

8                              Of a lovely thing.

Rhythm of Love, by Plain White T's

Rhythm of Love