Category Archives: General

Thoughts on Staying Present in the Face of Our Mortality – Dave Mathews, Rainer Rilke, Li-Young Lee, Dorianne Laux and Ellen Bass

Baby Baby it’s alright Stop your crying Now. Nothing is here to stay. Everything has to begin and end. A ship in the bottle won’t sail. All we can do […]

Susan Alexander Features R.S. Thomas, Guest Poetry Blog # 29, Part Two of Two

The Bright Field I have seen the sun break through and illuminate a small field for a while, and gone my way and forgotten it. But that was the pearl […]

You Were Always Leaving – Guest Poetry Blog #29 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Poet, Susan Alexander – Part One of Two

VANISHING GODS Each year I wait for two maples at the shore to gild themselves, scullery maids off to the ball. We were in foreign parts, touring the qubbas, the […]

A Cancer Diagnosis and the Healing Words of a Poem by the Palestinian American Poet Hala Alyan

Spoiler Can you diagnose fear? The red tree blooming from uterus to throat. It’s one long nerve, the doctor says. There’s a reason breathing helps, the muscles slackening like a […]

Poetry as Liturgy/ Poet as Priest – The Poetry Guest Blog Series # 28, Part Two by Margo Swiss

Easter Conversations “they said unto them, why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here but is risen, remember how He spoke unto you when you were […]

Love Stands Ready – Guest Poetry Blog #28 – Introducing the Latest Contributor, Canadian Christian Devotional Poet. Margo Swiss – Part One of Two

Lover’s Instructions I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark one come upon you, which shall be the darkness of God. T.S. Eliot, East Coker Lights out- […]

Three Poems for Mother’s Day 2024 – Osler, Dunn and Vuong

Today, this Mother’s Day he will write a different poem. Peony soft with big-enough curves to wrap around the moon when it’s full. A poem with photons enough to light […]

I Did Not Know I Would Turn from the Stream… Quotes and Poems on the Tragedy of Losing a Spiritual Connection to this Earth

  New Zealand journalist Rod Oram’s answer in an interview on a question on willingness for individual action on climate change recorded a few months before his death March 19th, […]

Guest Poetry Blog Series # 27 – Part Two – This “Constant Self of Being” – Tryphena Yeboah features Mahtem Shifferaw and Ada Limón

War I have been described by it, often seen it rise up the mouths of strangers, as if to say all things foreign – note: referring to me, or, my […]

These Wounds of Loss – Poems of Kwame Dawes in Memory of Rod Oram (1950-2024)

from IRIE ITES ……………………………………………………. I consider the vertigo of my days. as if I am still mourning my sister’s death, the deepest absence that will not relent. When I said […]