Woman sitting on a bed with coffee and book of poetry

Field of multi-colored wildflowers
Poetry

Wildflowers

by Maya Stein
How to meet the grey turn of the forecast, the stutter of any new uncertainty.How…
A pine tree backlit by the rising sun with a pine forest, mountaintops and blue sky in the background
Poetry

The Cure for It All

by Julia Fehrenbacher
Go gently today, don’t hurryor think about the next thing. Walkwith the quiet trees, can…
Poetry

#12

by Hakim Bellamy
The network of caverns inside my heart has enough rooms for in-laws and aging parents.…
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

Belonging

by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
And if it’s true we are alone,we are alone together,the way blades of grassare alone,…
Poetry

Pigeons

by Danusha Laméris
Because they crowd the cornerof every city street,because they are the colorof sullied steel,because they…
Poetry

For the Love of Avocados

by Diane Lockward
I sent him from home hardly more than a child.Years later, he came back loving…
Poetry

Ode to Autumn

by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
So many colors abandon the earth,and go skyward to the treeslike origami birds, scarlet, orange,…
Poetry

When Beginning the Poem

by Andrea Potos
may there be a listeningrather than a making curiosity over expectation, lightness and ease,no strainingtoward…
Poetry

The Kinneret

by Chanda Feldman
Over the hills in the north, the lake comes into view—azure blue water.At first you…
Poetry

My People

by Langston Hughes
Dream-singers,Story-tellers,Dancers,Loud laughers in the hands of Fate—           My People.Dish-washers,Elevator-boys,Ladies’ maids,Crap-shooters,Cooks,Waiters,Jazzers,Nurses of babies,Loaders of ships,Porters,Hairdressers,Comedians in vaudevilleAnd…
Poetry

The Second Music

by Annie Lighthart
Now I understand that there are two melodies playing,one below the other, one easier to…
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