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Poem by Jena Strong: What if?
What If? What if you knew that everything was going to be okay, that something was in motion beyond...
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Poem by Virginia Thesiger: The Safe Place
The Safe Place: There is no little space where God is not,/ No crevice, cranny, fissure, scissure, slot,/...Through...
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“Promise Yourself”
I PROMISE MYSELF: To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind. To talk health, happiness,...
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Bits from Friends and Blog Readers
The poem below is a redux of my poem of last week. Joe simply nailed the essence I was...
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Groundhog Day Poem by Blog Reader
So Winter Passes: Deep and deeper still,/ beneath the ragged elms and gnarled oaks,/ tangled roots as fingers lie knotted,/ entwined together...
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A Love Poem by RUMI
Looking for Your Face From the beginning of my life I have been looking for your face but today...
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A Blog Reader’s Response to Yesterday’s Poem
I have the best blog readers. Shared below is the response I got from a blog reader (who is...
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Poem by one of my Blog Readers: This Much I Know
The poem below was written by a blog reader of mine who is a friend from my local clergy...
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My Daughter’s Poem: Emmanuel
Wishing you a blessed Christmas! I made the Swedish star above and my thirteen year old daughter wrote the...
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Poetry by Wislawa Szymborska
This poet won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996, and this is the first book of her poems...
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Book Review: Journal of a Solitude
I loved this book and give it five stars. I heard a retrospective on NPR of their best interviews...
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Today’s “Tuesday Teatime”
My twelve year old daughter is doing something called “Brave Writer” as part of her homeschooling curriculum which includes...