Poetry

Poem Ending with a Line by Rumi

by Barbara Crooker
White-throated sparrows dart inand out of the hedgerow,their sweet long notes risingabove the thicket, the…
Poetry

Nativity

by Barbara Crooker
The amaryllis bulb, dumb as dirt,inert, how can anything springfrom this clod, this stone,the pit…
Sand timer with blue sand.
Poetry

In the Middle

by Barbara Crooker
of a life that’s as complicated as everyone else’s,struggling for balance, juggling time.The mantle clock…
Poetry

Gratitude

by Barbara Crooker
This week, the news of the world is bleak, another wargrinding on, and all these…
Poetry

Life

by Barbara Crooker
This is what life does. It hits you like a stonethrough the window in the…
Poetry

Ordinary Life

by Barbara Crooker
This was a day when nothing happened,the children went off to schoolwithout a murmur, rememberingtheir…
Poetry

Solstice

by Barbara Crooker
These are dark times. Rumors of warrise like smoke in the east. Droughtwidens its misery.…
flock of geese flying over some water.
Poetry

Sometimes, I Am Startled Out of Myself,

by Barbara Crooker
like this morning, when the wild geese came squawking,flapping their rusty hinges, and something about…
Rain blurs the view from a window
Poetry

All That Is Glorious Around Us

by Barbara Crooker
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Barbara Crooker

Barbara Crooker

About the author

Barbara Crooker is an award-winning poet whose poems have been featured in various media outlets such as the BBC, in magazines, and in numerous anthologies. Her most recent books include Slow Wreckage (Grayson Books, 2024); Some Glad Morning (Pitt Poetry Series, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), The Book of Kells (Cascade Books, 2018, winner of the Best Poetry Book 2018 from Poetry by the Sea), and Les Fauves (C&R Press, 2017). For more information, visit barbaracrooker.com.

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