Have you ever heard your own heartbeat? Amazing to know there’s this fist-size muscle in your chest pumping blood to...
Until further notice, the life we were living is on hold.Until further notice, we will not gather in the marketplaceexcept...
Sijo is a form of poetry from Korea that fits with my journey. For me, Sijo is a soulful play...
Teaching Emergency Awareness The smaller the room the better. A medium-sized cardboard box will do. Hand the equipment in to...
It started with two smiles. Backpacks zipped with metal clasps glistening in the crisp winter air; frosted fragrance on hard...
SERMON SERIES STEPHANIE HARPER [Finishing Line Press, 88 pages] Anyone who’s ever sat in a church pew should read this...
I have you here with me in my mind And I’m loving every thought about you. I see your picture...
“Do not go gentle into that good night.” I thought this line, from poet Dylan Thomas, “at” a friend. She’d posted...
Star Stuff I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together. – John...
A spontaneously formed poem Last summer—in fact, I remember it was the first day of my summer vacation from my...
A couple of days ago, I wrote a short poem with the title “I Want to Be Creative.” So many...
The New Age movement is an amalgam of hundreds or even thousands of traditional, eclectic and cross-cultural practices and points...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all...
For the majority of my life I have suffered from glossophobia, which is the fear of public speaking. I imagine that most people reading this can relate, as surveys have shown that 3 out of every 4 people tend to experience some level of speech anxiety that troubles them when they deliver public speeches. Over the years, my own level of speech anxiety has gone from sweating profusely to having a full-on panic attack and, for a long time, I attempted to simply avoid speaking publicly.
April has been recognized by the American Academy of Poets as National Poetry Month. There’s something about poetry in every...
The Traveller’s Handbasket With every place that I go, And every place that I have been, I am fated to...
NUMINOUS: Poems conceived within moments of spiritual ecstasy Leila A. Fortier [Saint Julian Press, Inc., 118 pages] “For when my...
Even though I work at a pre-through-fifth-grade school, I’m on the preschool side of the fence. So I was dumbstruck...
This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou...
When most people think about poetry, past greats such as Wordsworth, Keats, Dickinson and Plath come to mind. But one contemporary form of poetry...
From time to time, I’ve driven 50 miles or so to attend what’s called an “Oral Tradition” poetry gathering in...
The first poet I ever knew, at college, was a very quiet fellow in person. Once, though, he happened to...
After meditating or going out on a long walk, I often sit with a poem and allow the words to seep into the heart of my present moment experience. The theme of the piece could be centered...
BARREN FROST Is it racial miscues that prejudice our steadfast ways and hinder hope’s dignity? Seems we’re etched between equality...
