Poetry & More

The reason children are excited to see what comes next is because they don’t assume they already know. They don’t...

  ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ AUTO MIRROR In the rear-view mirror suddenly I saw the bulk of the Beauvais Cathedral; great...

There Is No Word for Goodbye – Mary TallMountain https://blog.stabenow.com/2015/11/27/poem-for-the-month/ Quote from Lahiri Mahasaya:  “Always remember that you belong to...

CAMAS LILIES Consider the lilies of the field, the blue banks of camas opening into acres of sky along the...

INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods...

Yesterday before bedtime I read Rumi’s poem “The Window Within the Soul.” I gave into the temptation to pull just...

I cannot do my work Because the birds keep saying I love you They rustle the leaves, they flutter and...

Broken Dreams – William Butler Yeats https://pickmeuppoetry.org/broken-dreams-by-william-butler-yeats/ Buoyancy – Jalaluddin Rumi https://rumidays.blogspot.com/2011/03/buoyancy.html Silent Friend of Many Distances – Rainer Maria...

they set my aunt’s house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like...

Whenever we care passionately about something, it’s always personal. That intensity of feeling has a deeply personal quality. It has...