This is one of my favorite poems - I used to have it memorized. - Jenine Bsharah Baines

“Before you know what kindness really is
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.”
 — excerpted from Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem ‘Kindness’
The Joy of Murdered Souls
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This is one of my favorite poems - I used to have it memorized.
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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