Poetry Friday
The Phoenix Again On the ashes of this nest Love wove with deathly fire The phoenix takes its rest Forgetting all desire. After the flame, a pause, After the pain, rebirth. Obeying nature’s… Continue reading
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Poetry Friday
Flowering Front Lawn. Picture courtesy of JanHasak.com Now How Does Your Garden Grow Digging deeper In rich earth Planted seedlings Reach to birth April blossoms Sprout anew Tulips risen Phlox debut… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Out There Out there you’ll see it all. The floating ends will meet and mend, and you will be yourself; your fully-formed, though always changing, self of selves. Every clumsy backward look will… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Wildflowers of the Burren, Co Clare, Ireland Be The Gift Today, be the flower that grows from a rock. Be the silk breeze that soothes heated hearts. Be the candle… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
The Path When you have followed the map which is not a map and created the path with every step you will traverse the in-ferno, meet the dragons and find them tame. You… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Sit Here Sit here just a moment in the stillness with me listen can you hear it? can you hear your heart beat? can you hear as breath leaves as you breath in… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Heartprints Whatever our hands touch – We leave fingerprints! On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There’s no escape. As we touch we leave our identity. Wherever I go today Help me… Continue reading
Poetry Friday
Today’s poem comes from the pen of Jackie Fox, a breast cancer survivor and writer living in Nebraska. Jackie is the author of From Zero to Mastectomy: What I Learned and You Need to… Continue reading
