Posts tagged with ‘poetry by others’

  • Make the Ordinary Come Alive

    By on March 15, 2014

    Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is a way of foolishness.

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    Polly Castor
  • A Poem by Dawna Markova

    By on March 8, 2014

    I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as...

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    Polly Castor
  • Poems Hide

    By on February 20, 2014

    I’ll tell you a secret: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the...

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    Polly Castor
  • Jobina’s Haiku

    By on February 12, 2014

    Here are some haiku by my friend Jobina (Check out her blog here)…   Life is not just mine....

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    Polly Castor
  • Poem by Leslea Newman

    By on November 2, 2013

      Secret Sometimes when the morning sun streams through the kitchen window and I’m washing the dishes or opening...

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    Polly Castor
  • Short Poem by Lao-Tzu

    By on October 5, 2013

    Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is

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    Polly Castor
  • Poem by Maya Stein: First Quiet of the Morning

    By on July 14, 2013

    Don't spend it on the stack of mail, the phone call, the mounting inventory of groceries. Resist the finished...

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    Polly Castor
  • Poem by e.e. cummings

    By on June 21, 2013

    i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue...

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    Polly Castor
  • Poem by Kahil Gibran: Your Children

    By on May 31, 2013

    Your Children Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself....

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    Polly Castor
  • Poem by Woodruff Smith: Genesis 1 or Genesis 2

    By on May 21, 2013

    Genesis 1 or Genesis 2 Where did it begin This idea called you? In Genesis 1, Or Genesis 2?...

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    Polly Castor
  • A Poem about Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye

    By on April 14, 2013

    Happiness It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness. With sadness there is something to...

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    Polly Castor
  • Poem by Cindy Maddox

    By on December 21, 2012

    We just rang the bells of my church/ twenty-eight times, not twenty-six./ Twenty-eight times,/ because twenty-eight people died last...

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    Polly Castor

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