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Delivered from a Drift (poem by Emily Polis Gibson)
Saved by a storm and dug out from a drift: I celebrate each time I hear your voice singing, knowing you...
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Appalachian Carol
When Mary birthed Jesus ’twas in a cow’s stall With wise men and farmers and shepherds and all But high from...
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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...
