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Books of Poetry I’ve Been Enjoying
I've been enjoying these two books of poetry lately and have marked some to eventually share with you.
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Mrs Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing (Book Review with Quotes)
This book is billed as a novel, but it is a record of a fictitious woman poet being interviewed,...
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Everything (poem by Mary Oliver)
I want to make poems that say right out, plainly, what I mean, that don’t go looking for the laces of...
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Homeward Bound (Poem by Sandy Wilder)
The simple beauty of walking in your truth because it is your own truth, is the path we eventually...
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Hope (Poem by Lisel Mueller)
It hovers in dark corners before the lights are turned on, it shakes sleep from its eyes and drops from mushroom gills,
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Peony Photos (with a poem by Mary Oliver)
The peonies this year have been exceptional as you can see by the volume of photos in this post....
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Singing Around Obstacles (Two Poems, Same Brilliant Analogy)
I love the metaphor both of these pieces utilize. Indeed, take heart! "The impeded stream is the one that...
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I Believe (Song by Carrie Newcomer)
I believe in a good strong cup of ginger tea And all these shoots and roots will become a tree
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A Mockingbird Sings (a poem by Sydney Eddison)
Beneath the windows where my mother sat, a mockingbird sang– a slender, pale, gray bird...
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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Poem by William Wordsworth)
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a...
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The Touch of the Master’s Hand (poem by Myra Brook Welch)
'Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his while To waste much time on the old violin, But...
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That’s Entertainment! (poem by Madora McKensie Kibbe)
Why entertain fear and doubt when angels wait without?
