Poetry & More

THE HARDEST BLESSING If we cannot lay aside the wound, then let us say it will not always bind us....

LOVE AFTER LOVE The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in...

FOR THE SENSES May the touch of your skin Register the beauty Of the otherness That surrounds you. May your...

Starlings in Winter Chunky and noisy, but with stars in their black feathers, they spring from the telephone wire and...

At first your thinking will darken And sadness take over like listless weather. The flow of unwept tears will frighten...

Meeting Your Death Because there are no clear instructions, I follow what rises up in me to do. I fall...

How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best by Andrea Gibson When I realized the storm was inevitable,...

Turning – Julie Cadwallader Staub https://janicefalls.wordpress.com/2023/10/18/turning-by-julia-cadwallader-staub/ Unison Benediction – May Sarton https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/blog/2018/11/21/may-sarton-unison-benediction/ For Light – John O’Donohue https://intrinsicheart.com/for-light/ Carrying Our...

Common Ground Always in big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there...

Indelible, Miraculous friend, think of your breath on a cold pane of glass you can write your name there with...