Poetry & More

Lately some old wounds and old fights have been coming up in me yet again.  Evidently the scars are acting...

The Dead – Billy Collins https://wordsfortheyear.com/2015/10/31/the-dead-by-billy-collins-and-special-announcement/ I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great  - Stephen Spender https://thehurlyburly.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-think-continually-of-those-who-were.html Only...

We think we get over things. We don’t get over things. Or say, we get over the measles but not...

True poetry opens a gateway into another realm. What makes a true poem is not its form, but its power...

Sonnets 29, 30, and 31 – William Shakespeare https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/sonnets/sonnet_view.php?Sonnet=all&pleasewait=1&msg=pl Verses from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam “O Friend, for the...

Lovers share a sacred decree - to seek the Beloved. They roll head over heels, rushing toward the Beautiful One...

A Spiritual Journey And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only...

Have you ever arrived somewhere and suddenly felt as though you’d come home?  Relieved of all that was weighing you...

Thoughts on Maundy Thursday – Margaret Avison (from the book No Time) The Treasure – Robinson Jeffers https://mondaypoem.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-treasure-by-robinson-jeffers.html?m=0 What Is...

My eyes already touch the sunny hill. going far beyond the road I have begun, So we are grasped by...