PRAYER AND THE CAT AS A METAPHOR FOR GRATITUDE, POET OF THE WEEK
cindyphillips Shabbat Shalom, and with immense gratitude for fortitude and friendship through a difficult week, here is an introduction to a new poet for me. I have been thinking about how…
Poems I love
WHO WAS VINCENT?
Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood. Th’ applause of…
PRAYING
Praying by Mary Oliver It doesn’t have to bethe blue iris, it could beweeds in a vacant lot, or a fewsmall stones; justpay attention, then patch a few words together…
CONSTANTLY RISKING ABSURDITY
The American Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti first published “Constantly Risking Absurdity” in his 1958 collection A Coney Island of the Mind. The poem compares the poet to an acrobat who…
love is thicker…
it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die
OPEN ARMS
I look; morning to night I am never done with looking.