A Shout of Joy

David Whyte is one of my favorite poets. He is so honest that you cannot help but open your heart and look closely at who you are. The House of Belonging is a collection of poems published in 1997, but I've just recently discovered it!  There are so many poems I want to share, but I'll start with just a part of "The Winter of Listening."

Inside everyone

is a great shout of joy 

waiting to be born.

All those years

forgetting

how easily

you can belong

to everything

simply by listening.

So let this winter

of listening

be enough

for the new life

I must call my own.

~David Whyte~